atom smasher
Example Sentences
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He doesn’t like seeing the fallen atom smasher, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
David Sheppard and Avante Brown were canvassing residents for a solar company recently when they stumbled onto the atom smasher.
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
