atom smasher
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But he now sees the atom smasher as a piece of history worth preserving.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
Officials say they’re on board with standing up the atom smasher, but caution the plan hasn’t been formally approved.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
Eventually, the world’s biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, blasted some of those bosons into fleeting existence, cementing Higgs’s explanation of how fundamental particles get mass.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 10, 2024
The atom smasher near Geneva, Switzerland, is most famous for demonstrating the existence of the Higgs boson in 2012, a discovery that slotted into place the final keystone of the current classification of elementary particles.
From Scientific American • Aug. 11, 2021
Eventually two other Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
