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[–] Entropywins@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It's pronounced Nolan 😂

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

it trons cycles

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] pntha@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Melbourne has the Synchrotron

[–] count_of_monte_carlo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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