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...great cyclotron at Berkeley is just barely strong enough. Dr. Eugene Gardner, 35, and Brazilian-born Dr. C.M.G. Lattes, 23, put a thin carbon target in a beam of alpha particles (helium nuclei) in the cyclotron chamber. Figuring that the alpha particles had enough power (380 million electron volts) to knock mesons out of the carbon atoms, Gardner & Lattes put a stack of special photographic plates at the spot where the mesons should hit. Then they turned on the cyclotron. When they developed the plates, they found the characteristic wavy tracks of negative mesons. Some of them ended in "stars...
...space is really curved, then the universe must be "finite," of limited (though perhaps expanding) size'. One "model of the universe" (Einstein's) gives the "circumference of space" (the path which a beam of light would cover as it circles around finite space and back to its starting place) as about 300 billion lightyears...
Science's sharpest eye is the electron microscope. It sees with a fine-grained beam of electrons instead of coarse-grained light. Last week the Electron Microscope Society of America met in Philadelphia to talk about a few little things they had seen...
They told him, with almost embarrassing alacrity-in more than 350 letters. Many suggested that the Star-Times take the beam out of its own eye by cleaning up its comic strips. It couldn't very well do that, said the Star-Times lamely; if it dropped comic strips, they-and their readers-would be snapped up by competitors. It was no use complaining to the syndicates; their attitude was that most of their customers were satisfied, so take it or leave...
...party to stop, move to the next light. After a while Dr. Sasaki douses that light too. The fish move on, in a growing throng, like tipplers shunted from bar to bar by a series of closing hours. At last the only remaining light is the fatally attractive beam that beckons from inside the net. The fish swim in and Dr. Sasaki hauls up his net. In the cold light of dawn, the light-minded fish are headed for broiling (yaki zakana...