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World's smallest particle accelerator is 54 million times smaller than the Large Hadron Collider, and it works (www.livescience.com)
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[–] Entropywins@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Around 1930 they had a particular accelarator at Berkeley called the Cyclotron...they had the coolest names back then

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Large Hadron Collider is also a cool name. Are there newer accelerators with uncool names, like "TD Bank Accelerator"?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"randall", he's an old baseball pitcher who just throws the atoms really hard

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It's pronounced Nolan 😂

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

I will always read its name as "Large Hardon Collider". Could be its porn name.

[–] pntha@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Melbourne has the Synchrotron

[–] count_of_monte_carlo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Berkeley still has a cyclotron, though it’s a little newer (build in the 60’s) and much bigger.