Word: chiu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long before Brookhaven's scientists started to trap neutrinos, other scientists spun far-ranging theories about the little particles. Neutrinos may be small and shy, says Chinese-born Dr. Hong-Yee Chiu of Yale, but they are vastly important. At last week's Manhattan meeting of the American Physical Society, Physicist Chiu explained that neutrinos may well be the basic stuff of the universe...
Until recently, said Dr. Chiu, stars were thought to lose energy (and therefore mass, which turns into energy) in the form of light, heat and other kinds of electromagnetic radiation. Now many scientists see a different picture. The hot centers of stars are believed to generate neutrinos. Since neutrinos have no mass or electrical charge, they pass through dense matter almost as if it were not there. Neutrinos created near the center of a star would quickly escape into empty space, carrying their energy with them...
...Chinese listeners in San Francisco may soon-if the electronic wrinkles are ironed out-watch the video version of Gunsmoke while their radios blast out a Cantonese translation, courtesy of a local radio station. "Grab a hunk of sky," mouths Marshal Matt Dillon from the TV screen. "Ghur sao chiu tin" rasps radio's Cantonese cowpoke...