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...gadget, called a maser. from which the light came, will lead to astonishing things. The waves of red light moved exactly in step; other light is helter-skelter. The waves kept to the same razor-edged frequency; other light is a mixture of frequencies. They formed a slender pencil beam that hardly spread out at all. If they had marched to the moon-240,000 miles-they would have covered less than one twenty-fifth of its face...
...peace," was the reply. "I'm going to die anyway." A few hours later, Brigrrte Bardot made an apparently serious-and heavily headlined -attempt to die. In the garden of a friend's pink villa, a vineyard keeper found Brigitte unconscious beside a well. In the beam of his flashlight he saw Brigitte: "Her eyes were closed, her teeth slightly parted, and her arms were red with blood." It was her 26th birthday-and it ended up in a neurological clinic in Nice, where the diagnosis was barbiturate poisoning, plus slight wrist lacerations. Brigitte's periodically estranged...
...months the world's most powerful particle accelerator (or atom smasher) was at Geneva, Switzerland, generating a beam of protons with up to 28 Bev (billion electron-volts) of energy. Last week the energy championship came back to the U.S. At Brookhaven National Lab oratory, Long Island, the new alternating gradient synchroton, which scientists call AGS, was kicked up to full power for the first time, generating a proton beam that stayed steady at 30 Bev and hovered for short periods as high as 31 Bev, accelerating particles at rates only a fraction below the 186,300 miles...
...Billion Protons. The Brookhaven AGS delivered its powerful beam with remarkable ease. The scientists adjusted its complex machinery for only nine days before the injected particles reached 30 Bev. Another triumph for Brookhaven is that each pulse of the beam contains 10 billion protons. Some accelerators have pushed their particles to scheduled speed but delivered only a comparative few. The Soviet 10-Bev accelerator at Dubna is apparently plagued with this trouble. U.S. physicists, who would be quick to praise their Russian colleagues if praise were due, estimate that its pulses contain 10 million protons, one-thousandth of the number...
...based on the convenient fact that atoms of cesium vibrate at an absolutely constant rate: about 9,200 million times per second. A cesium "clock" has neither a face nor hands. Instead, cesium atoms are shot down a vacuum tube, and radio waves are directed across the cesium beam. When the radio waves are at precisely the frequency at which cesium vibrates, they are absorbed. The operator of the cesium clock need only tune his waves until he gets absorption. Then he will know accurately the frequency (i.e., vibrations per second) of his waves, which can be displayed...