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Another exciting project is to find out what happens when two protons slam together. At energies hitherto available, nothing much happens; the protons behave as if they were indestructible. But no physicist would care to bet on it-consid ering past surprises. Columbia's cyclotron may prove powerful enough to smash protons to bits and reveal a whole new level of sub-atomic structure...
...scientists would dare to make such figures public. But the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists had run on to an exception. Its article on the H-bomb is a reprint from a book by well-known Austrian Physicist Hans Thirring, who had no access to secret information. The book was published in Vienna, right under the nose of the Russians...
Ramsey, a 34-year-old nuclear physicist, came to the University in 1947 after active government work on atomic energy projects during the war. He has held positions as Expert Consultant to the Secretary of War, Associate Development Head of the Los Alamos Project, and Chief Scientist at the Atomic Energy Advance Base at Tinian in the Marianas...
...much more difficult news problem. Knowledge in the 20th Century-while enormously greater than ever before-is very unevenly distributed. Specialists are everywhere-on the faculty of a university, even among members of the same household. Various publications address themselves to specialists: one speaks to the physicist, another to his wife (who can't do long division), another to their son who is absorbed in music, another to their neighbor whose consuming interest is politics. But all these individuals have to pull their weight in the same civilization...
...this common meeting ground stands 20th Century journalism's great responsibility. Journalism has to talk to the physicist, his wife, his musician son and his political neighbor all at once...