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[-] Entropywins@kbin.social 19 points 11 months ago

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

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

It's pronounced Nolan 😂

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Well, it's like the Terminator. What does it do? It terminates. Still a cool name.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

it trons cycles

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] pntha@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Melbourne has the Synchrotron

[-] count_of_monte_carlo@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

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