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It's interesting that people only really became aware of particle accelerators in the LHC sense. CRT televisions are also particle accelerators. It's nothing too super new.
Around 1930 they had a particular accelarator at Berkeley called the Cyclotron...they had the coolest names back then
Large Hadron Collider is also a cool name. Are there newer accelerators with uncool names, like "TD Bank Accelerator"?
"randall", he's an old baseball pitcher who just throws the atoms really hard
It's pronounced Nolan 😂
Yeah, but that's just what it is and does. What's it do? Collide. What's it collide? Hadrons. How big is it? Large.
I like the Cyclotron so much better. What does it do? I don't fukken know, but it sounds cool as shit
Well, it's like the Terminator. What does it do? It terminates. Still a cool name.
it trons cycles
I will always read its name as "Large Hardon Collider". Could be its porn name.
Melbourne has the Synchrotron
Berkeley still has a cyclotron, though it’s a little newer (build in the 60’s) and much bigger.