atom smasher

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Potential buyers have balked when they learned the property came with an atom smasher.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

“I was cruising through YouTube and saw some kids getting into the atom smasher and exploring it,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

And it needed the world’s biggest atom smasher CERN’s Large Hadron Collider to produce the extreme surge of energies simulating those 1 trillionth to 2 trillionths of a second after the Big Bang.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2024

In such a universe, a black hole appearing inside an atom smasher becomes much more feasible, potentially revealing insights into the very nature of gravity.

From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2023

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