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Or the 14 miles of tunnels that were dug for a giant particle accelerator in Texas, only for Congress to pull the plug.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world's biggest particle accelerator.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

Another micro-quasar, V4641 Sgr, produced gamma rays reaching 0.8 PeV, identifying it as another "super PeV particle accelerator."

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2025

Pallab Ghosh goes inside the largest particle accelerator in the world - which discovered the Higgs boson.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2024

One comes from Germany, with a man in short leather pants on it and the message: Great particle accelerator; one from Nevada, with a cactus and the note, Interesting life forms.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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