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...m.p.h. at sea level), it would have moved only nine feet before a laser beam arrived from 1,000 miles away. High-velocity beams of charged particles would be harder to create. Unlike the massless photons that make up light beams, charged particles (those parts of the atom that carry an electronic charge; electrons most likely would be used in a missile-killing beam) have weight. But, as in the beams used in atom smashers, they could be "energized" in strong magnetic fields to velocities approaching the speed of light...
...Open Universe, philosopher Karl Popper searches for that crucial ingredient whose absence keeps us from reducing the world's problems to perturbations in an atom's trajectory...
...physicist bounded across the platform, he unleashed his ideas in staccato bursts and gesticulated with the verve of a maestro. "You have to pardon Carlo," said a colleague. "He's a little high-strung these days." With good reason. Using one of the world's most powerful atom smashers, Italy's Carlo Rubbia, 48, and his team of 134 European and American scientists appear to have snared a trophy that has been the dream of physicists for two generations: discovery of the so-called W particle, the elusive carrier of one of the universe's basic...
...futilely trying to unify two of nature's basic forces: gravity, the glue that holds the universe together, and electromagnetism, which governs such familiar processes as fire, chemical reactions, even human metabolism. But there are two other less well-known agencies at work within the nucleus of the atom: the so-called strong force, which binds the nucleus' protons and neutrons, and the weak force, which shows its hand in the disintegration, or "decay," of certain nuclei, like those of uranium 235. Post-Einstein theorists in the late 1960s succeeded in finding a unity between electromagnetism...
...attack of its own. Such moves by the Japanese, said the Soviet news agency TASS, would "make Japan a likely target for a retaliatory strike" and thus could lead it to "a national disaster more serious than the one that befell it 37 years ago," when U.S. planes dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...