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xkcd #3286: Particle Physics Equipment
Title text:
The one that sounds like the oracle at the center of the galaxy where the hero travels to hear a prophecy is probably Brookhaven National Laboratory's now-dismantled COSMOTRON.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3286/
I would have put cyclotron halfway
Plenty of underutilized names there.
I mean "scintillation counter"?! That's all the way to the right.
Right? I want to keep count of my scintillations, for sure
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