Gail Simone

A lot of readers and a lot of editors had a story problem with Oracle, in that she made for such an easy, convenient story accelerator, that we missed the sense of having characters have to struggle to discover, to solve mysteries. Famously, it helped make Batman less of a detective and more of a monster hunter.

American Writer

Christine Tsai

I can say without a doubt that being a mom is the ultimate test of my multi-tasking skills. I spend my day meeting startup after startup, helping our portfolio companies, bringing in speakers, and soon gearing up for Demo Day for our accelerator program.

American Businesswoman

Arvind Gupta

A big part of the accelerator is to help scientists become entrepreneurs. I like to think about each business being built on three major areas: creating the value, creating the product, and extracting the value. We provide help in each of these areas.

Indian Inventor

Simon van der Meer

Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.

Dutch Physicist

David Cohen

People look up to Techstars because they get funded by Techstars; they go through the accelerator. What we do impacts what they do. What we care about we hope has a meta impact on those entrepreneurs and how they think about the world.

American Businessman

Dan Buettner

The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.

American Explorer

Ernest Walton

A linear accelerator has the advantage that no magnet is required and that its cost should not rise much more steeply than with the energy of the particles required.

Irish Physicist

Joseph Brodsky

The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the universe.

American Poet

Steven Wright

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

American Comedian

Saul Perlmutter

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.

American Scientist

'Accelerator' goes often with verbs about action, like 'press', 'hit' or 'step on'.

Action Verb

The accelerator in a vehicle is specifically to increase the car's speed quickly.

Increase Speed

Using 'accelerator' in a sentence can imply controlled speeding, not just reckless driving.

Controlled Use

'Accelerator' is used in physics to describe complex machinery, not just any fast-moving object.

Scientific Context

In physics, accelerators increase energy of particles, which can be misunderstood as just speed.

Not Just Speed

In chemistry, 'accelerator' refers to something that makes reactions happen faster, like a catalyst.

Speeds Reactions

Chemical accelerators are often catalysts, but not all catalysts are referred to as accelerators.

Subtle Difference

A business accelerator is a support system designed to promote and expedite new business progress.

Business Growth

Accelerators often pair businesses with mentors to guide progress and increase chances of success.

Mentorship Included

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Why our screens make us...

 It is a device that collides atomic nuclei together at extremely high energy. The most powerful one scientists have ever built can heat matter to the hottest temperatures ever achieved, temperatures last seen at a trillionth of second after the universe began. Our accelerators are full of engineering superlatives.

How does an atom-smashing...

 Humanity merged with machines, extinct due to climate change or asteroid impact, or inhabiting a permanent colony on Mars. But the trouble is, getting heavy things like people, not to mention space ships, up to such speeds requires unimaginable amounts of energy. It already takes enormous particle accelerators

Is time travel possible?...

 between the economical and political conditions of the country and what I was seeing right in front of me however this shouldn't surprise us there's a renascence of innovation in Africa over a hundred plus incubators accelerators and herbs have cropped up all over the continent and centres of

Looking for innovation...

 slices of the universe, scaled-down versions. They are mostly made up of dark matter, and that's what you see in this bluish purple. The red represents the hot gas, and, of course, you can see many galaxies. What's happened is a particle accelerator at a huge, huge scale.

What we can learn from...

 with support from Mastercard and now others, created this therapeutics accelerator to really triage out. You have hundreds of people showing up and saying, try this, try that. So we look at lab assays, animal models, and so we understand which things should be prioritized

How we must respond to...

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The Physics of...

 Actually, yes. Using particle accelerators, we can mimic the complex nuclear reactions that create gold in stars. But these machines can only construct gold atom by atom. So it would take almost the age of the universe to produce one gram

Where does gold come...

 This same force allows protons and neutrons to transform into each other, a vital part of the fusion interactions that drive the Sun. To observe the W and Z directly, we needed the high energy collisions provided by particle accelerators.

What’s the smallest...

 are called blazars, or blazing quasars. What makes blazars so special is that they're some of the universe's most efficient particle accelerators, transporting incredible amounts of energy throughout a galaxy.