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...Berkeley, Calif...
Some scientists have never admitted that relativistic time dilation can give any kind of immortality. But in last week's Nature, Dr. Frank S. Crawford Jr. of the University of California (Berkeley) offered theoretical proof that high speed can postpone at least one kind of death...
...lines described by Alvarez were photographs taken of a "bubble chamber" filled with liquid hydrogen in which high-speed particles made trails of tiny bubbles. When the chamber was bombarded by extremely powerful particles from the Berkeley bevatron, some of the tracks looked as if they were made by mu mesons, which are knocked out of the hearts of smashed atoms. A few of these tracks were peculiar; they had gaps in them that puzzled the scientists...
Particle Wanted. Dr. Alvarez, spokesman for the group who made the discovery, wants to make plain that catalytic mesons do not offer direct means for releasing fusion energy in commercial amounts. There is no dependable source of mesons at present except giant machines like the Berkeley bevatron. Worse still, mu mesons are short-lived, decaying into other particles in two-millionths of a second, so they have little time to act as catalysts. If a longer-lived particle could be found that does the catalytic service, the reaction would look promising indeed. The Russian physicist Artemy Alikhanian claims to have...
...Berkeley, Calif...