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Carter and Kennedy also have different attitudes toward the alternatives to our long-standing dependence of fossil fuels. On nuclear power, Carter has yet to forsake his support of the "peaceful atom." He has not even taken the moderate step of calling for a moratorium on new plant construction until more is known about its hazards. Kennedy has come out for a moratorium...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Never the Twain Shall Meet | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

...these four forces, Einstein concerned himself with only two--electromagnetism and gravity--because the others were simply beyond his experimental means. The two others, which exist on the sub-atomic level, were developed to resolve specific problems. Ernest Rutherford's celebrated early twentieth century experiments on nuclear density uncovered an empirical contradiction: all the protons (positively charged species) in a given atom are concentrated in its nucleus; since like charges repel one another, the nucleus should theoretically burst apart. So physicists coined the "strong" forces--those which specifically...

Author: By James Aisenberg, | Title: An Invitation To Stockholm | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...Pakistani), for their contributions to a theory that explains the relationship of two of nature's basic forces: 1) electromagnetism, which accounts for such phenomena as sunlight and radio waves, and 2) the weak force that governs the release of a beta particle from the nucleus of an atom in a process called radioactive decay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nobel Prizes: That Winning American Style | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...molecular biology's leap into prominence has been amply documented. In 1953, at Britain's venerable Cambridge University, two brash young scientists named James Watson and Francis Crick made a discovery comparable to the fissioning of the atom or Darwin's publication of Origin of Species. In a matter of months, after cribbing clues from associates and competitors, Watson, then 25, and Crick, 36, cracked what they grandiosely called "the secret of life": they unraveled the long, spiraling architecture of the DNA molecule, a feat that suggested how heredity truly worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Detective Story | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...energy crisis could ultimately destroy our economy and bring down the world economy along with it. Such a collapse would precipitate world conflict and probably atomic war. We cannot escape the danger of the atom. But I would rather risk a mishap once every 20 to 30 years than face one nuclear holocaust. Philip L. Hall Yoakum, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 30, 1979 | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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