Arvind has his own theory: "If the goal of the universe were to manufacture life, as he secretly believed, then the universe was a giant device... to make minuscule pieces of life here and there".
Funded by Jeff Bezos, the C.E.O. of Amazon, the giant device (five hundred feet tall, when completed) will be built into a mountain in Van Horn, Texas, and will run, if all goes according to plan, for ten thousand years.
The LHC at Geneva is currently shut down while engineers upgrade the giant device in order to double the energies of the protons which it smashes together at colossal velocities in order to create particles that help reveal the underlying structure of the universe.
More than 1,000 workers are divided into four quadrants, with more than 150 pieces of heavy equipment available, like the Caterpillar 345 Ultra High excavator, a giant device brought in from Illinois that has 80-foot-long arms with shears that can slice through steel beams.
"No, I won't be carrying that giant device in my pocket," wrote Mashable's Lance Olanoff.
A witch has a giant device that squashes up human bodies for an unknown purpose.
Apple assures us that final production versions will come with training corners -- foam wedgies that will soften the blow until the user gets used to answering the giant device.
The relationship between the input stress and the output flux density of giant magnetostrictive devices exhibits hysteretic nonlinearity and magnetoelastic coupling inherent to giant magnetostrictive material (GMM).
For the iPad, it expects at giant 12.9in device with a 2732x2048 resolution.
"A De-limbing Machine, Clatsop County, Oregon" (1999-2003) sounds and looks like a giant torture device; the implication, of course, is that it is one.
