collider

• The large hadron collider, a particle physics accelerator, that we'll be turning on later this year. —  Patricia Burchat sheds light on dark matter
• The thinking was--is--that there's some kind of a field, the Higgs, that permeates all of space and that gave particles their masses when the early universe congeal ed And the collider is able to remelt that field You smash together two beams of protons at seventeen terravolts, you get a hell of a lot of interesting effects Including travel through time Again, she smiled. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 01 - January 1999
• The computer infrastructure is critical to the work being done in the particle collider, which is a tunnel buried 50 meters to 150 meters below the ground. —  Latest from Computerworld
• Dealing with the information that will be created by the collider is a mammoth task. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
• The LHC, as the collider is known, will take scientists to within a split second of a laboratory recreation of the Big Bang, which they theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe. —  IBN Top Headlines

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