History Main / MagicalParticleAccelerator

* In Creator/HarryHarrison's ''Star Smashers Of The Galaxy Rangers'', the protagonists experiment with a homemade particle accelerator, and one of them plays a joke on the other by putting in a piece of cheddar instead of a test mineral into the target slot. After being hit with the particle beam, the cheese turns into a strange-looking rock that turns out to have amazing properties. When exposed to certain energies, the "cheddite" teleports the target object a certain distance away (depending on the amount of energy applied) by shunting it through a tiny parallel universe.

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', the Yamato Perpetual Reactor was ''originally'' built to study black holes. It also creates portals to other worlds, allowing demons and so-called "angels" to enter, [[spoiler: and its ''true'' purpose is [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt to create a black hole that will consume all of creation]] - all it takes is a push from a willing player character.

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'', the Yamato Perpetual Reactor was ''originally'' built to study black holes. It also creates portals to other worlds, allowing demons and so-called "angels" to enter, [[spoiler: and its ''true'' purpose is [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt to create a black hole that will consume all of creation]] - [[NonStandardGameOver all it takes is a push from a willing player character]]]].

* ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' [[spoiler:steals antimatter from the CERN facility to power the Imperceptor vest to break into the Escher Vault and steal cosmetics. Oh, and the plan to a death ray.]]

->''OK, so there may be like a dozen ways the LHC can destroy the universe, but seriously, ''time travel?''''

-->'''Peter Venkman:''' Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator.

This trope is also played for comedy, as the type of time travel the main cast uses, which only sends back small quantities of data, requires a much smaller particle accelerator. [[spoiler:Specifically a CRT monitor in the room below them has to be on, thus why they were only able to activate it at certain times in the day.]]

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher2099'': the new Punisher uses a sort of Particle Accelerator to "kill" the soul of a criminal that obtained immortality via reincarnation. Possibly the poster definition of "overkilling".

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'' has portable versions. It's possible to build such a device but they wouldn't act like the ones shown.

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 2984}}'' has portable versions. It's possible to build such a device but they wouldn't act like the ones shown.

The newest PhlebotinumDuJour - ILoveNuclearPower for [[TurnOfTheMillennium The Noughties]]/TheNewTens/''Whatever The Hell This Decade Is Called''. Presumably thanks to the massive publicity surrounding the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider Large Hadron Collider]] (LHC), particle accelerators have become the latest science thingy that can do anything. Note that this usually involves [[LaserHallway visible beams]] and massive tunnels that people can stand next to or even ''inside'' without suffering unpleasantness such as [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace suffocation]], [[ExplosiveDecompression freezing, boiling]], electrocution or dying of radiation poisoning shortly after.

->OK, so there may be like a dozen ways the LHC can destroy the universe, but seriously, ''time travel?''

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'' has portable versions. It's possible to build such a device but they wouldn't act like the ones shown.

** An episode of the [[Series/TheOuterLimits1995 1995 show]] has the same method used to accidentally discover a SubspaceOrHyperspace, which appears to allow shortcuts through space. [[spoiler:Except said "shortcut" is actually the bloodstream of a living universe that starts to fight off the invaders like any immune system would]].

* Though never actually explained, the brief view on approach to ''TerraNova'''s Hope Plaza include a pair of massive circular structures, probably intended to be particle-accelerator components. Presumably this means that achieving TimeTravel requires a MagicalParticleAccelerator in that Verse.

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* An advert for the [[ShavingIsScience Gillete Fusion razor]] has scientists making ''razor blades'' with some sort of bizarre particle accelerator/fusion reactor thingummybob.

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* ''Comicbook/ThePunisher2099'': the new Punisher uses a sort of Particle Accelerator to "kill" the soul of a criminal that obtained immortality via reincarnation. Possibly the poster definition of "overkilling".
* ''TransformersGeneration2Redux'' takes place in the actual Large Hadron Collider, where the Decepticons plan on using it to somehow activate a [[AppliedPhlebotinum new energy source]] they've found and grant themselves new abilities. It works... a little too well.
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' may have been the first example. [[PhysicalGod Dr. Manhattan]] gains his powers from being caught in a particle physics experiment, even though the terminology used is very different TechnoBabble from [[ScienceMarchesOn what you'd get from a modern example]].

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* ''GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' has a [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed No Hadron Colliders Were Harmed]] version of the LHC, close enough to Paris that [[EiffelTowerEffect the Eiffel Tower is clearly visible]]. It's also apparently owned and run by a single rich, snooty man and, once he's taken hostage, Cobra is free to use it to activate their stolen nanoweapons.
* ''[[Film/IronMan Iron Man 2]]'' has [[spoiler:Tony Stark create a new element by building a particle accelerator in his workshop]]. Wow.
* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'' has portable versions. It's possible to build such a device but they wouldn't act like the ones shown.
-->'''Peter Venkman:''' Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator.
* A particle accelerator firing causes time to repeat in a GroundhogDayLoop for a man in the made-for-TV movie, ''12:01''. He's aware of the looping of time because he was [[LightningCanDoAnything electrocuted]] by his alarm clock at exactly the time the particle accelerator fired off the first time, making him able to defeat one PhlebotinumDuJour with a much older one.

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* ''AngelsAndDemons'' features an accelerator at CERN being used to produce enough {{antimatter}} to blow up the Vatican (CERN does really produce antimatter, but only a tiny fraction of that amount).

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* The ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' radio play "Lost Souls", written to celebrate the launch of the LHC, has an alien soul-stealer living in the tunnels of the Collider, let in by a rip in the universe caused by the accelerator. [[ReversePolarity Reversing the polarity]] of the beams conveniently destroys the beast ''and'' reveals the Higgs Boson.
** The monster is a definite case of YouFailPhysicsForever. It steals all your neutrons!

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* Writing in "LHC" (or [[ForScience "SCIENCE"]]) in ''{{Scribblenauts}}'' is one of several ways of [[KillEmAll killing everyone on the screen. Including yourself]].

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* ''GaoGaiGar'' featured a particle accelerator that got turned into a dragon-like monster by the Zondars. It and its creator later play a major role in defeating the BigBad.

* In ''ProblemSleuth'', [[TimeyWimeyBall Past-Future Pickle Inspector and Future-Future Pickle Inspector]] have the [[LimitBreak Comb Rave]] power "Large Hadron Anti Part-Pickle Acceleration, where they [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001595 build a particle accelerator]] using [[MagicalRealism portals made of traffic lights]], [[spoiler:destroying [[FinalBoss DMK]]'s final health bar.]]

* In the 2014 version of ''[[Series/TheFlash2014 The Flash]]'', Barry, as well as a number of other [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual meta-humans]], get their powers as a result of the particle accelerator explosion at S.T.A.R. Labs. The lightning that strikes Barry comes from a storm caused by the explosion. According to Dr. Wells, the explosion releases "anti-matter, dark energy, X-elements" into our world with unknown effects. [[spoiler:The end of the pilot episode reveals the possibility that the explosion was no accident and that Wells may be trying to either prevent or ensure a BadFuture]].

* An accident in an episode of ''TheOuterLimits'' allows humans to get access to a [[SubspaceOrHyperspace subspace]] of sorts by concentrating two particle accelerator beams in a single point.

* "Saturn Ring" system in ''DarkerThanBlack'' was an accelerator on the scale of RealLife colliders. It was supposed to destroy [[RealityIsOutToLunch Gates]] along with [[AlienSky everything]] and [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual everyone]] linked to them. Or at least one quite competent MadScientist is quite sure it should, anyway. There was some commotion when the news about this leaked out, of course. Note that the tunnels around the storage ring are evacuated -- as far as people on whom "workplace safety" extends are concerned. [[spoiler:And that the damaged tube looks like it's under some heavy fire even when no one hits it anymore.]]

* A relatively minor incident in a Russian novel (can't remember the name) involves a deep-space lab experimenting with a high-powered particle accelerator, when an old secret military satellite passes by. The satellite launches missiles at the lab and destroys it at the moment the particle beam is firing. The beam ends up not hitting its target and escapes into space... going right for Earth. Luckily, [[SubspaceAnsible FTL communications]] and sensors allow humans to head off the beam and set up a "net" to catch it before it hits the planet.

* Some gems have unusual colors not because of minor chemical contamination -- for one, [[http://www.internetstones.com/dresden-green-diamond-famous-jewelry.html green diamonds]]. They are either found in places where it was subjected to lots of penetrating radiation over centuries, or made by affecting a normal gem with the same... really quickly.