Word: chiu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly he was gone again. Two Chinese diplomats had loaded him onto a hospital stretcher and carried him to the Chinese mission, where police were powerless to enter. The Dutch Foreign Ministry immediately protested the kidnaping, but got only silence from Charge d'Affaires Li En-chiu. After two days, the protests gave way to an ultimatum that the Chinese release their prisoner. Too late. "I am afraid I cannot help you," Li declared. "Unfortunately, Mr. Hsu died in my office...
...Chiu-yin, city editor, Sing Tao Evening News, Hong Kong. He studied economics at Canton University, has been on the Sing Tao staff since 1946. He plans to study history and philosophy...
...hotter a star gets, says Dr. Chiu, the more neutrinos it generates. When the internal temperature reaches 6 or 7 billion degrees, neutrino production shows a sudden increase. Most of the particles escape with a rush, leaving the star's center almost empty. Then the star collapses and causes a gigantic explosion that sprays ordinary matter as well as neutrinos into space...
Nothing much happens to star-produced neutrinos, says Dr. Chiu. Most of them will probably last unchanged as long as the universe. They will cruise endlessly, moving at the speed of light, their courses curved by the gravitation of nearby stars. In the depths of space they are a hundred thousand times as common as cosmic rays. On the earth, where the nearby sun generates many neutrinos, some 100 billion of them pass through a square centimeter every second. Dr. Chiu estimates that about half of the neutrinos generated by stars could pass through ten billion earths without being absorbed...
Neutrinos, says Dr. Chiu, are the ashes of nuclear fires. According to Italian-born Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo,* they may also be the original stuff of the universe. Somehow they turned into stars. But as the stars burned, they turned into neutrinos again. Ashes to ashes, says the Book of Common Prayer. "Neutrinos to neutrinos," says Dr. Chiu...