Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Situated in the middle of the floor of the Gordon McKay Physics Laboratory is a huge mountain of steel tanks, glass tubes, wires, and valves surrounded by a high picket fence. This is the famous cyclotron, known to the uninitiated as the atom smasher...
Lethal Silver. It has long been known that silver is a deadly killer of one-celled organisms, and silver has been widely used as a germicide. It used to be thought, how ever, that from 100,000 to 100,000,000 silver atoms were needed to kill a cell. Last week Physicist Alexander Goetz of Caltech described experiments showing that under favorable circumstances just one silver atom will kill a cell - a feat roughly comparable to the killing of a dinosaur by a gnat...
Overt purpose of the book is to examine the findings of modern science for light on the domain commonly accepted as beyond science. Quantum Mechanics (mathematics of the atom) finds that a subatomic particle, e. g., an electron, is accompanied by immaterial waves of energy which seem to guide it. Indeed it is only by analysis of its "pilot wave" that the speed and position of an electron can be determined, and then only probably, not certainly. Immaterial waves need not be tangled up with matter at all. Like radio waves, they can exist in or travel through nothingness...
Physicist Lawrence invented the cyclotron, a type of atom-smasher which accelerates atomic bullets in spiral paths as a baseball pitcher winds up for his throw...
Spewed forth in various highways and byways during the average Harvard week are some thirty extra-curricular lectures and informal talks. Audiences attending them range from three to several hundred, while the subjects may be anything from Atom Smashing to the Future of the British Empire. Some of these lectures are scoteric and unpalatable, others vital and appealing; rarely do any of them obtain the hearing or the permanence to which they are entitled...