what is a atom smasher
These 10 animal facts will amaze you. Atom smasher is a colloquial term for a particle accelerator, a device that accelerates elementary particles (protons, electrons, and into each other at significant fractions of the speed of light to probe their inner makeup.nstead of exploring outer space like telescopes, particle accelerators explore the inner space of the atom. The latest and greatest atom smasher is the $5 billion US Dollars Large Hadron Collider (LHC) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.