How come don’t particle accelerators just blow up?

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When we try to make new elements and launch atoms at one another they don’t blow up, but when you do that in a nuclear device it ruin’s cities

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>When we try to make new elements and launch atoms at one another they don’t blow up, but when you do that in a nuclear device it ruin’s cities

When you inhale a single water molecule you won’t even notice it. When you dump 10^30 molecules of water over your head you may drown.

Nuclear bombs release the energy from a chain reaction involving trillions of trillions of particles. Particle accelerators don’t.