Comment on World's smallest particle accelerator is 54 million times smaller than the Large Hadron Collider, and it works

• elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “randall”, he’s an old baseball pitcher who just throws the atoms really hard

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    • Dkarma@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s pronounced Nolan 😂

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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    • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it trons cycles

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  • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• pntha@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Melbourne has the Synchrotron

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• count_of_monte_carlo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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