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- noun A high-energy particle accelerator.
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- noun a high-energy
particle accelerator
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The supercollider was a terrible thing for most scientists -- it was killing budgets for everything not particle physics.
New Obama Ad: McCain Is Bad On Space -- And Bad For Florida 2009
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The supercollider was a massive construction project with much of the budget going to things like digging and pouring concrete.
New Obama Ad: McCain Is Bad On Space -- And Bad For Florida 2009
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A supercollider is a “built up” structure of massive proportions.
On Writing a Novel Inefficiently | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2006
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Keep in mind, a lot of the people who say, well, I don't like the space station, or I don't really think the supercollider is the best use of our investments in physics, they may be arguing about other investments that they think ought to be made.
Presidents Press Conference ITY National Archives 1993
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Well, a couple days after I asked this question and got all those responses (thanks!), I saw an old ep of Futurama in which the professor orders some kind of supercollider from them, which is delivered by an Ikea robot, which looks like a TV stand.
John Joseph Adams » Those Swedes sure know how to put in almost everything you need 2006
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Well, a couple days after I asked this question and got all those responses (thanks!), I saw an old ep of Futurama in which the professor orders some kind of supercollider from them, which is delivered by an Ikea robot, which looks like a TV stand.
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Scientist-novelists will tell you that writing a novel without a plan is about as good an idea as building a supercollider without a blueprint, measuring everything by eye and improvising as you go.
Scientists Versus Mystics Alex Shakar 2011
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Creation of a tyransitiuon on the subatomic level has been posited as one of the possible applications of supercollider technology.
"Other hands than it should pass through..." stsisyphus 2009
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In total, 20 European countries joined their political wills to move forward with the CERN, which with the decision taken by the U.S. Congress in 1993 to discontinue funding for a supercollider that was planned to be built in Texas, became the world's leader in particle research.
José Fernando López: God Particle And Santorum's Faith José Fernando López 2012
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These are cool: Large Hadron Collider - CERN supercollider - webcams
qroqqa commented on the word supercollider
Only one Wordie listing this? In less than ten hours we might be seeing superpartners, dark matter, extra dimensions, time travellers, mini black holes, strangelets, . . .
September 10, 2008
mollusque commented on the word supercollider
I heard someone who thought it was a boondoggle refer to it as the supercolliding trash-compactor.
September 10, 2008