Word: atomizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Locked up for millions of years in the heart of the lead atom lies a geological secret which promises to aid scientists in extending the knowledge of earth's history back farther than ever before into the ages following this planet's birth from the sun, a Harvard physicist has found...
...Prime example of the dogmatic spirit is "the relativistic theories of Einstein, which are based on an arbitrary definition of space and time coordinates. . . ." Other examples are theories of wave mechanics in which the electron is "arbitrarily smeared in a large spatial region around the atom" or made to "dance round the atom in an irregular manner...
...unit is the weight of the hydrogen atom...
...barytron was discovered as a product of cosmic-ray activity in the upper atmosphere. Several investigators, however, have suggested that the powerful forces which bind the nucleus of an atom together may be caused by a sort of "bubbling" within the nucleus-a continuous creation, exchange and reabsorption of heavy particles. Last week Dr. Hans A. Bethe of Cornell, a brilliant analyst of atomic behavior, showed how barytrons could perform this nuclear binding function if they exist in all three electrical states - positively charged, negatively charged, neutral...
...Evolution of Physics, Drs. Einstein & Infeld admit that modern Quantum Theory has thrown a very powerful searchlight on the atom, but they are dissatisfied with it as a picture of reality. Quantum Theory makes use of old-fashioned absolute time, with three separate space dimensions. But each particle requires its own three space coordinates. So to describe two particles six dimensions are needed; a description of ten particles require's 30 dimensions. That is too abstract for Dr. Einstein. He thinks four dimensions are enough...