Word: atomization
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...both, simultaneously. The jury is still out. And may always be out. This ambivalence is simply the dualism of the world, the secret of its magnetic fields, its gigantic plus and stupendous minus. We split the atom, and what was the moral meaning of Hiroshima? The lives saved? Or the lives incinerated...
...assumptions and beliefs about eternity and how the world will end. For scientists, meanwhile, there are certain details in these discoveries that have profound--and bizarre--implications. For example, the new observations bolster the theory of inflation: the notion that the universe when it was still smaller than an atom went through a period of turbocharged expansion, flying apart (in apparent, but not actual, contradiction of Albert Einstein's theories of relativity) faster than the speed of light...
...cool regions gives theoretical physicists all sorts of information about the newborn cosmos. They were already pretty sure, from the equations of nuclear physics and from measurements of the relative amounts of hydrogen, helium and lithium in the universe, that protons, neutrons and electrons (the building blocks of every atom in the cosmos) add up to only about 5% of the so-called critical density--what it would take to bring the cosmic expansion essentially to a halt by means of gravity...
...recent six-hour video project for PBS, Ma collaborated with artists from various disciplines to present Bach’s “Suites for Unaccompanied Cello.” Choreographer Mark Morris, Olympic figure skaters Torvill and Dean, filmmaker Atom Egoyan, a Kabuki actor and a landscape designer worked with Ma on different suites to create what The Washington Post called an “18th-century music video...
...short, you survived however you could, and that need tended to drive out noble sentiments. This is a theme another writer, Paul Fussell, takes up even more brutally in his essay "Thank God for the Atom Bomb." His argument is simple: better them than us--them being the Japanese civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, us being the American troops (Fussell among them) poised to invade the Japanese home islands in 1945. Citing ex-Marine E.B. Sledge's eyewitness account of Pacific combat, Fussell writes of Marines "sliding under fire down a shell-pocked ridge, slimy with mud and liquid dysentery...