Word: atomization
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...short years ago mathematical builders of the universe got along with two fundamental particles, the proton and the electron. The proton was the nucleus of the simplest atom, hydrogen. It had a charge of positive electricity and its mass was .0000000000000000000000166 gram. The electron, which in the hydrogen atom throbbed alone around the nuclear proton, had a negative charge matching the proton's positive charge and its mass was 1,847 times less than that of the other particle. The more complex atoms of other elements were constructed from various combinations of electrons and protons...
...that a negative proton might be expected to exist." Anderson had also declared himself for this particle; Gamow of Russia thought it might help to explain artificial radioactivity. Max Born, distinguished German exile now in England, guessed that in some distant regions of the universe the rule of the atom might be reversed-negative protons at the core and positive electricity outside...
Years of extensive research conducted carefully and systematically but its former subscribers, have failed to isolate that elusive atom known to students to Cambridge's better tutoring bureaus as "The Harvard Crimson." But the deductive method applied to a story which apeared recently on the front page of that publication, has finally solved the mystery...
Approach to Unity. Herculean struggle of modern theoretical physics is to find a mathematical system which will handle both the atom and the universe...
...Birkhoff system, the hydrogen atom is contemplated as a mixture of two "perfect fluids"-the positive electricity of the nucleus, the negative electricity of the surrounding electron. The disturbance created in the fluids by a particle or light rav from outside can be expressed, very roughly speaking, as though they were water rippled by a falling stone. Furthermore, the expression can be formulated in Relativistic terms. Whether atoms with more than one electron can be crammed into the same mold remains to be seen...