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...Pennsylvania proton synchrotron on the Princeton campus, which is used for basic particle research by 14 universities. From a recent budget of $5,000,000 annually, the synchrotron funds have now been cut to $3.5 million, and will be down to $2,000,000 next year. Beyond that the Atomic Energy Commission is cutting off funds completely-after a total investment of $30 million on a project that, according to Director Milton White, has not yet had a chance to reach its peak efficiency. Another important tool for probing the secrets of the atom, the Cambridge Electron Accelerator at Harvard...
Although Scott prepared for Patton by reading and watching newsreels, he has no set theories or prejudices about acting. "Actors," he explains, "are the original atom smashers." In other words, people who break down a character or a human emotion into its tiniest components and then reassemble it. "It's schizophrenic," he says. "The first trap is getting too much of yourself into the part. The second is getting too far removed, too technical. The ideal is a combination of both those elements with something else, the ability to get away from yourself, criticize, be brutal with yourself...
...Subtlety. By the early 1920s, investigations into the atom had struck an impasse. The old Newtonian laws could explain such motions as those of the planets around the sun; they could not account for the subtle behavior of electrons whirling around the nucleus of an atom. Trying to work their way out of this quandary, Born and other scientists held that the motion of the electron was discontinuous or broken into pockets of energy called quanta. Others conceived of electrons as continuous, uninterrupted waves. Though these theories helped explain atomic phenomena, they could not tell physicists where an individual electron...
Slowdown at Sunrise Governed by the natural rhythm of an isotope of the cesium atom-which vibrates exactly 9,192,631,770 times per second-the atomic clock has long been considered man's most accurate timekeeper. Calculated to gain or lose less than a second over a period of 6,000 years, it was adopted by the 1967 General Conference of Weights and Measures as the international time standard. Despite those impressive credentials, which are accepted by most scientists, the reliability of the clock has now been questioned by two experimenters at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory...
...into the nation's dirty skies. In theory, the cure is nuclear power-a vision of clean, cheap electricity and smog-free air. Now that vision is being challenged by a growing coalition of conservationists, laymen and legislators who raise disturbing questions about the dangers of the peaceful atom. The critics are vocal and active-and they are getting results...