oddly shaped

“I did image comparisons of the drawings you, Top, and Bunny made of the one you saw at Gateway and that thing you saw looked like a hadron collider, but it wasn’t exactly the same. Maybe that’s because your sketches are kind of, well, sketchy. Anyway, I talked to a bunch of eggheads and the thing nobody understands so far is that the one down there was built more like a tunnel that curved down into the earth, right? It wasn’t a circular loop?”

“No, unless it was unfinished.”

“Still wouldn’t make sense. You wouldn’t build one at that angle. These things are circular with no sharp bend, and never upright. And they are massive. We’re talking thousands of tons of material, and they build them flat so gravity doesn’t warp the structure. That’s how they get the particles up to speed, by running them in a circle as close to the speed of light as you can manage, and then you collide them with particles going in the opposite direction. The machine you saw isn’t configured for that."

-Kill Switch pg. 293, Kindle Edition.