Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atomic energy still means the Abomb, a world of terror, not of promise. Uranium fission is only a beginning. The building-up of hydrogen into helium, if it could be achieved, would theoretically yield vastly more energy-which could also be used for bombs. The quantum theorists, roaming in abstract ecstacy among their lacy equations, long ago entered a world where matter and energy are almost indistinguishable. They talk matter-of-factly of turning all of a sample of matter into energy. A single pound of anything, unfrozen in this way, will yield as much power as burning about...