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Physicists will never be happy until they take the atom completely apart. Most of them already consider the atom bomb just a frontier skirmish. Last week they gathered at the University of California to discuss the big topic in nuclear physics: subatomic particles. To the American Physical Society, U.S. atom-busters described carefully laid plans for further busting...
Until recently, atomic physicists thought they knew nearly everything there was to know about the atom. Now, Nuclear Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer told the meeting, they are "frankly puzzled." The notion that an atom consists only of electrons, protons and neutrons has been knocked into a cocked hat by the discovery of mystifying sub-particles -positrons, mesotrons, and a hypothetical particle called the neutrino...
Nobody knows, said Oppenheimer, how the sub-particles fit together or affect each other. To find out, physicists must somehow duplicate the atom-smashing carried on in nature by cosmic rays...
Cyclotron. For high-powered work, the cyclotron has had a basic flaw: at very high speeds it runs head on into relativity. In a cyclotron, nuclear bullets (such as deuterons-the nucleus of the heavy hydrogen atom) are whirled around in a drum divided across the middle, like a halved round cheese. Each time a bullet crosses the gap between the drum halves, it gets an electrical kick, increasing its speed. Because of the bullet's great speed (it circles the drum in millionths of a second), accurate timing of the kick is all-important. But as the bullet...
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