In fact, physicists who use giant accelerators to smash atoms and search for exotic particles have been known to call their work "resonance hunting."

There are practical reasons you would not want to smash atoms in your basement, observing for yourself the peculiar behavior of the fundamental components of matter.

Researchers attempt to build very large atoms by smashing other atoms together, but these atoms are very unstable.

He stood beside me, gravely watching the screens, as I smashed atoms for him.

It will be used to smash atoms in an effort to discover the most fundamental building blocks of matter.

The purpose of the supercollider is to smash atoms in an effort to discover the most basic building blocks of matter.

It smashes atoms together at high speed to break them apart and see what they're made of.

Beams of such power as were developing now would have smashed atoms to protons and electrons.

The man who would smash atoms created a potato smasher as a child.

In the 1970's, researchers realized this phenomenon had enormous research potential, and soon began building the circular synchrotrons to shed radiation rather than smash atoms.