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It's likely based on the Superconducting Super Collider that was canceled shortly after the series was produced. A large-scale particle accelerator in Texas is the focus of a couple episodes of Tekkaman Blade, where it was used to produce ammunition for the Fermion Cannon needed to fight the Radam.Silent Möbius has a giant particle accelerator underneath Tokyo that plays a major role in Project Gaia, a failed attempt to solve Earth's energy or pollution problems or something like that.It and its creator later play a major role in defeating the Big Bad. GaoGaiGar features a particle accelerator that gets turned into a dragon-like monster by the Zondars.While the actual LHC and similar devices are nowhere in sight, Tsutomu Nihei's Knights of Sidonia has most of the Applied Phlebotinum fueled by Higgs Bosons and the Humongous Mecha can perform power boosting combination maneuvers by linking arms together to form a ring, invoking the shape of a toroidal accelerator.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.

In a comical twist, the type of time travel the main cast uses, which only sends back small quantities of data, requires a much smaller particle accelerator.The plot in Steins Gate is based around the idea that the Large Haldron Collider successfully generated kerr black holes that could be used for the purposes of time travel.And that the damaged tube looks like it's under some heavy fire even when no one hits it anymore. Note that the tunnels around the storage ring are evacuated - as far as people for whom "workplace safety" extends are concerned. There is some commotion when the news about this leakes out, of course. Or at least one quite competent Mad Scientist is quite sure it should, anyway.

It is supposed to destroy Gates along with everything and everyone linked to them.
