collider
noun
col·lid·er
kə-ˈlī-dər 
: a particle accelerator in which two beams of particles moving in opposite directions are made to collide
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Yet the collider had not been turned on nor do videos of the tunnel show anyone present.
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Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
Plans call for two more such connections: one 400 kV, the other 225 kV. From these three sources, the collider’s infrastructure would distribute power to the collier’s eight access shafts; from there, it’d be distributed to the rest of the collider.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
However, a muon collider might combine the strengths of hadron and e+e- colliders— and be faster and cheaper to build.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
New Gravitational Test Sees First Fall Stephanie Pappas Physicists' most successful tools for discovering new fields, and the particles associated with them, have historically been particle colliders.
—Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
We, with our spaceships and particle colliders, our operas and crème brûlées, our megacities and globe-spanning systems of cooperation, are made of the same essential stuff as those club-wielding nomads cooking mastodon steaks on a spit.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
Gas carried by incoming colliders also set off more star formation in the Milky Way.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
Particle colliders like the CERN machine get their oomph from Einstein’s revelation that energy and mass are interchangeable.
—Katrina Miller, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
With trillion electron-volt electrons, high-energy colliders become possible, Hommelhoff says.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2023
Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
Plans call for two more such connections: one 400 kV, the other 225 kV. From these three sources, the collider’s infrastructure would distribute power to the collier’s eight access shafts; from there, it’d be distributed to the rest of the collider.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
However, a muon collider might combine the strengths of hadron and e+e- colliders— and be faster and cheaper to build.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
New Gravitational Test Sees First Fall Stephanie Pappas Physicists' most successful tools for discovering new fields, and the particles associated with them, have historically been particle colliders.
—Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
We, with our spaceships and particle colliders, our operas and crème brûlées, our megacities and globe-spanning systems of cooperation, are made of the same essential stuff as those club-wielding nomads cooking mastodon steaks on a spit.
—Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
Gas carried by incoming colliders also set off more star formation in the Milky Way.
—Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
Particle colliders like the CERN machine get their oomph from Einstein’s revelation that energy and mass are interchangeable.
—Katrina Miller, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023
With trillion electron-volt electrons, high-energy colliders become possible, Hommelhoff says.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2023
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