atom smasher
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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
The one-time industrial powerhouse shut the atom smasher by the late 1950s; it sold the surrounding 10 acres in 2013.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
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
Published last week in Physical Review Letters, the method should be widely useful, including in making predictions to be tested at the world’s biggest atom smasher, Europe’s Large Hadron Collider.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2022
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
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