Definition of collider
: a particle accelerator in which two beams of particles moving in opposite directions are made to collide
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Just think of biology before and after the microscope or gene sequencing, or of astronomy before and after the telescope, or of particle physics before and after colliders or fast electronics.
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So far, though, the small-is-beautiful approach has been no more successful than the big colliders in coming up with new phenomena.
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Since 2008, the Large Hadron Collider has fixated conspiracy theorists with fears that the particle collider would spawn a world-ending black hole.
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One scene shows a worried author (Donal Logue) warning that the collider could open up alternate realities that in turn could unleash giant beasts of unknown origin on our world.
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Most physicists therefore want to double down, construct an even bigger collider and hope something interesting emerges from that.
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Theoretical physicists Dam Thanh Son and Andrei Starinets, for example, collaborated on an idea that used black hole math to predict the viscosity of an ultrahot gas, or plasma, that forms in certain particle collider experiments.
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The incident briefly knocked out power to the collider.
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That incident took the collider offline for a week.
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First Known Use of collider
1979
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