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Instead, we turned to synchrotron light, a powerful form of high-intensity x-rays produced at specialized particle accelerator facilities.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 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

Making this discovery required a multibillion-dollar particle accelerator, thousands of scientists across dozens of countries, and papers with multipage author lists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

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

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2024

This is still not nearly powerful enough to see strings or curled-up dimensions—viewing strings would require a particle accelerator about 6,000,000,000,000,000 miles around.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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