Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...months the world's most powerful particle accelerator (or atom smasher) was at Geneva, Switzerland, generating a beam of protons with up to 28 Bev (billion electron-volts) of energy. Last week the energy championship came back to the U.S. At Brookhaven National Lab oratory, Long Island, the new alternating gradient synchroton, which scientists call AGS, was kicked up to full power for the first time, generating a proton beam that stayed steady at 30 Bev and hovered for short periods as high as 31 Bev, accelerating particles at rates only a fraction below the 186,300 miles...
...based on the convenient fact that atoms of cesium vibrate at an absolutely constant rate: about 9,200 million times per second. A cesium "clock" has neither a face nor hands. Instead, cesium atoms are shot down a vacuum tube, and radio waves are directed across the cesium beam. When the radio waves are at precisely the frequency at which cesium vibrates, they are absorbed. The operator of the cesium clock need only tune his waves until he gets absorption. Then he will know accurately the frequency (i.e., vibrations per second) of his waves, which can be displayed...
...Focused Beam. Dr. Baronofsky, 42, figured out a way of using irritation, but without the knife. X rays, in properly adjusted doses, cause transient irritation without doing actual damage. Tests with hundreds of dogs showed that survival rates jumped fourfold or better after an artificially simulated heart attack, if the animals were irradiated. Then some were killed, and dissection of their hearts showed that small artery branches had multiplied...
...Baronofsky selected patients who were in no shape to withstand surgery. Working with Surgeon Elliot Senderoff and Radiologist John Boland, he focused an X-ray beam through the chest walls onto the heart muscle itself, in three or more treatments over a two-week period. By now the group has treated 28 patients and seen no ill effects, but encouraging signs that in the human subjects, as in the dogs, small coronary branches have increased and carried a bigger load...
...educated crystals may be microscopically small or as big as quarters, and they can do many different electronic jobs. Some are sensitive to light, and will turn on a car's headlights when the beam of a flashlight falls upon them. Others can generate alternating currents, turn them into direct currents at a different voltage. They can also serve as the electrically controlled switches that are used as thinking units in computers...