atom smasher

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But he now sees the atom smasher as a piece of history worth preserving.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

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

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

If that were so, the reign of the cyclotron as sciences most powerful and effective atom smasher might be a brief one.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik