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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Around 1930 they had a particular accelarator at Berkeley called the Cyclotron...they had the coolest names back then

[–] elbarto777 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Large Hadron Collider is also a cool name. Are there newer accelerators with uncool names, like "TD Bank Accelerator"?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"randall", he's an old baseball pitcher who just throws the atoms really hard

[–] Dkarma 1 points 1 year ago

It's pronounced Nolan 😂

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, but that's just what it is and does. What's it do? Collide. What's it collide? Hadrons. How big is it? Large.

I like the Cyclotron so much better. What does it do? I don't fukken know, but it sounds cool as shit

[–] elbarto777 6 points 1 year ago

Well, it's like the Terminator. What does it do? It terminates. Still a cool name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

it trons cycles

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I will always read its name as "Large Hardon Collider". Could be its porn name.

[–] pntha 6 points 1 year ago

Melbourne has the Synchrotron

[–] count_of_monte_carlo 3 points 1 year ago

Berkeley still has a cyclotron, though it’s a little newer (build in the 60’s) and much bigger.