Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficulty of living with the atom bomb is not that few people have read Aristotle, but that so few people understand or care about the structure of contemporary society. The main task is to set people thinking about social questions, and to have them take seriously their own obligations. ... It is this practical problem . . . which must engage the attention of those who plan to save civilization by education, rather than the discussion of moral ideals by people who need only great books, a room and some company, in order to save...
Theoretical consequences might be enormous. The hydrogen atom, with its single proton and single electron, is the simplest atomic structure. It is therefore the starting point for investigation of the fundamental mysteries of matter. The atoms of other elements are more complicated, but presumably their constituent particles follow the same basic laws...
More Speed. The Lamb & Retherford experiment acted rather like an improved microscope, revealing fine details about the hydrogen atom which earlier and coarser methods had left unsuspected. Now scientists, equipped with a new road map, may move ahead with more boldness and speed. Perhaps they will find out things that no one knows at present: what electrons and protons-and even matter itself-really...
...never-never land far beyond the frontier of practical technology. But Nobelman Rabi compared Lamb & Retherford's criticism of the Dirac theory with Einstein's modification of Newton's laws of motion. It took 40 years for Einstein's relativity to grow into the atom bomb...
...atom bombs do not do the job first, the human race may destroy itself just as effectively in a slower, subtler way. Last week, in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nobel-Biologist Hermann J. Muller of Indiana University warned that even the peaceful use of atomic energy may kill off the human species by loading its germ plasm with too many "mutated" genes...