Though bosses readjusted the settings in their favour, they did not smash the machine.

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It was the first machine to smash particles together with energies in excess of 1 trillion electron-volts or 1 TeV, whence its name.

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If Sega were launching Dreamcast tomorrow, or even this year, it would be a good bet that the machine would be a smash hit.

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