supercollider
Americannoun
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Researchers at the world's biggest particle accelerator in Switzerland have submitted proposals for a new, much larger, supercollider.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2024
But the settings on the supercollider feel just off this time.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2022
Facebook is a kind of social supercollider, a gigantic, insanely expensive hunk of technology without which we can’t hope to glimpse tiny, ephemeral social facts.
From Slate • Jun. 30, 2014
He went to work on the superconducting supercollider project.
From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2011
Since the supercollider debacle particle physicists have set their sights a little lower, but even comparatively modest projects can be quite breathtakingly costly when compared with, well, almost anything.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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