Word: atomization
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Professor Bohr, who has invented a very useful description of the atom, first pointed to Professor Einstein's relativity laws which say that we can never measure absolute time. Next he referred to Professor Werner Heisenberg's proof that we cannot measure at the same instant both the speed and the position of an electron, that the more exactly we determine the speed of electrons in an atom the less certain we can be of the position of the electrons in an atom. Thus, we can never say precisely what is Cause or what is Effect. The Heisenberg...
Relativity and uncertainty are absolute facts, reasoned Theorist Bohr in effect. Through them mathematicians are able to describe the tremendous, strange activities within an atom. But only one kind of activity at a time. For, the essential nature of atomic (or quantum) mechanics is duality. You can determine where an electron is or how fast it is moving, but not both facts simultaneously...
...lithium atom has an atomic weight of almost seven (reasoned Dr. Bainbridge in effect). An alpha particle has an atomic weight which may be called four. If they merged during the Curie-Joliot bombardment, their combined weight was almost eleven. If the alpha particle and lithium atom did merge, they at once split into a boron atom and a neutron, whose combined weights totaled infinitesimally more than the combined weights of the lithium atom and alpha particle...
From the kinetic energy of the alpha particle which hit the lithium atom, argued Dr. Bainbridge. Where others only surmised, the Curie-Joliots actually saw energy turning into matter, saw E equalling...
...think," said he at Pasadena last week, "all the matter in the Universe was once condensed into a single primordial atom and that this atom exploded with such force that we still see some of the smoke going away. And ever since that original disintegration, matter has been breaking up into lighter and simpler substances. We are still in time to see this wonderworld, for we still have radium that has not completely extinguished into dull substances like lead and helium...