Physicists and other scientists use particle accelerators to find out about matter, energy, and our universe. By smashing atoms of gold, and other elements together sometimes at 99% of the speed of light, scientists can even create new particles, and may even be able to see how our universe looked seconds after the Big Bang!
Particle accelerators are HUGE! Some are over 2 miles long, and come in 2 basic types: Linear, and Circular. They use huge amounts of energy to smash atoms together.
Many different countries have particle accelerators. The United States, Canada, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, France, Israel, and India are just a few of the countries that have at least one particle accelerator. Each of these accelerators has from several dozen to several hundred scientists and engineers who maintain the accelerators and work on projects every day.
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CERN--European Center for Nuclear Research. Scientists at CERN devised a language known as HyperText Markup Language. We know it as html, or web page language. I guess you can say that the World Wide Web got it's start here! Ahh, but you should see their particle accelerators!
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
RHIC--Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Los Alamos National Laboratory--Where the American Nuclear program began.
SLAC--Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Plasma Laboratory at the Weizmann Institute.
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