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...University and the State University of New York announced that they had demonstrated that nature's laws of symmetry are not inviolate. Now, less than three months later, order has apparently been restored. At a conference in Berkeley last week, scientists from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) sided with symmetry. Their own more comprehensive experiment, they said, showed no evidence of a violation of symmetry...
Reversing the Field. In their experiment at Geneva, the European physicists also studied eta-meson decay. They analyzed 10,665 photographs of tracks made by pions in the CERN spark chamber, and in their larger, more reliable statistical sample, they found no significant difference in the energy levels of positive and negative pions...
...fixed magnetic field, the positive pions that Franzini studied always curved in one direction, while the negative pions went the other way. If the field had been uneven for any reason, the higher positive-pion energy levels detected at Brookhaven might well have been erroneous. In the CERN spark chamber, the magnetic field was periodically reversed to make sure that positive and negative pions would both be subject to any variations in the field...
...more familiar faces around President Sukarno's office these days is the grim and sorrowing visage of Yao Chung-ming, Red China's ambassa dor in Djakarta. Three times in a week, he showed up to express his grave con cern at the Indonesian government's recent antisocialist behavior. If the Bung was being honest, he must have expressed grave concern right back, for there was precious little he could do about the disturbing turn of events. The army was clearly in control...
Omega-Minus Signature. The unknown particle predicted by the eightfold way was named omega minus, and both CERN Laboratory in Geneva and Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island started elaborate campaigns to find it. Brookhaven's apparatus was built around the 33-bev (billion electron volt) Alternating Gradient Synchrotron, and it used a line of magnets and electrostatic separators 400 ft. long to isolate negative K-mesons. Ten of the K-mesons were allowed to enter Brookhaven's 80-in. liquid-hydrogen bubble chamber every 2½ seconds, and pictures were taken of the results. Two pictures...