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Different Kinds of Oscillating Field Particle AcceleratorsThis article explores the three major types of oscillating field particle accelerators. Learn more about particle accelerators than you thought you would ever know.
What is a Particle Accelerator?This article explains what a particle accelerator is and some of the uses that it has in modern scientific inquiry. These amazing devices do more that most people know.
The Hadron Super Collider Powers Up: Particle Accelerator Just Warming UpThe largest particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), was turned on Wednesday, September 10, when scientists on the Swiss-French border threw the switch that would begin powering up the 17-mile underground conduit.- Large Hadron Collider Begins Operation, Fact and Fiction CollideOver the years, the Large Hadron Collider, which is 17 miles long and took approximately $8 billion to build, has been the target of lawsuits, protests, court injunctions, and wild speculation. It has also been the popular subject of many speculative works of fiction.
Particle Accelerator Welcomes Time-TravelerCERN's LHC in Switzerland has its first celebrity visitor who meets Alice and ATLAS. He learns how "one lot goes this way, and another lot goes that way" and then BOOM.