Word: banging
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...scale far smaller than that of the atom. The goal is to answer ancient and fundamental questions: What is the universe made of, and what are the forces that bind its parts together? These questions cannot be answered without an understanding of what happened in the Big Bang, the unimaginably hot and dense fireball that 15 billion years ago gave birth to the universe and all it contains...
...sense, accelerators are time machines that re-create the primordial fireball in miniature to unlock its secrets. The collision of two accelerated particles releases enormous bursts of energy. But that energy instantly condenses into a new array of particles, some of which may not have existed since the Big Bang...
...past, we haven't been able to get the biggest bang for the buck because we have students with such different needs," Dingman says. "We'd be getting things one or two students could...
...National Rifle Association and a few groups like that. Then I'll lean back and let them spend many times that amount trying to squeeze more out of me. On the receiving end of the direct-mail business, torturing the opposition may be the way to get the most bang for your buck...
...preacher railed against secular humanism and the Big Bang theory to choruses of "Amen" from the congregation. I squirmed in my seat, mortified by the thought that our group would return to Harvard remembering the church service as evidence that all West Virginians are gullible and naive. I hoped that my classmates would remember the piety, the charity, the resourcefulness, the selflessness and the perseverence that were evident in the community where we stayed...