Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choice example of the odd logic of so many of the assailants of our "irrelevant" doctrine and our "decaying" church. "Why should anybody go to church," asks Editor Kingsley Martin [TIME, July 19], "and listen to the Sermon on the Mount, when they know that atom bombs are being made for use?" Why, he asks, listen to the greatest compendium of moral law ever issued, in a time of singular moral lawlessness? In other words, why should anybody be such a fool as to consult a physician in a time of epidemic...
...Psalmist and to compare himself (favorably) with Christ. The master cell, said Brown, "takes all the fight and hatred out of men and animals alike. It will prevent disease and pestilence. It will prevent famine. It will make pigs fatter; make cows produce more milk. It makes the atom bomb obsolete . . . The master cell is my God, and it will bring peace...
...knows for certain what makes supernovae explode. One theory: when they reach some unstable state their matter "collapses." The electrons circling around the atomic nuclei move inward and combine with the equal number of protons that they find in the nucleus, forming neutrons. These occupy very little space compared with the original atom, and can pass through ordinary matter...
...they went from Victoria. Nothing can revive that belief. Once they believed that Christian principles had something to do with public conduct. But why should . . . anybody . .. expect people to go to church and listen with respect to a priest reading the Sermon on the Mount, when they know that atom bombs are being made for use? The Church decays because the doctrines so often seem irrelevant to the issues of life and death, about which it is supposed to give the answers...
Later, physicists found that the hypothetical particles (which they had come to call neutrinos) were a convenient explanation for other things they did not understand. For instance, when an atom throws off particles, it kicks back like a firing gun. The energy of the particles and the recoiling atom can be measured accurately by studying the tracks of moisture they make in a Wilson cloud chamber. Theoretically, they should balance; but in many cases they do not. Why? Physicists assume that invisible neutrinos have been shot away, too, affecting the recoil of the atom...