particle
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That makes them about seven orders of magnitude, or 10 million times, more energetic than particles accelerated inside the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
Its reported energy ranks it among the most powerful cosmic-ray events ever observed, placing it in the same rare category as the "Oh-My-God particle" recorded in 1991.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
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
The paper claimed the first discovery of a Majorana fermion, a theoretical particle central to the tech giant’s quantum computing effort.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
The concept of uncertainty pertains to scientists’ ability to describe the properties of a particle.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Quantum of Vocabulary: the Parlance of Particle Physics
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"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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