Word: decays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...below the ground. When excavation is completed, the cavern will be lined with synthetic rubber and filled with 10,000 tons of exceptionally pure, filtered water. Then, about two years from now, physicists will begin looking in the pool for flashes of light that could signal the decay of protons, confirm a unifying theory of nature, and end the cherished notion that matter is permanent...
...Physicists Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow of Harvard and Pakistani Abdus Salam, winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physics for showing an underlying unity of two of nature's four basic forces: electromagnetism and the so-called weak force, which governs some forms of radioactive decay within the atomic nucleus. In carrying their work further to relate these two forces to a third -the strong force (which binds the atomic nucleus together)-they and other researchers determined that such unity requires a net loss of baryons when certain particles collide. In other words, the proton must...
...Minnesota iron mine. Based on the number of protons in the cavity's water (more than 10³³), Physicists John Vander Velde of the University of Michigan, Frederick Reines of the University of California at Irvine, and their colleagues figure that there should be about 200 decay "events" per year...
...Egypt's economy today is a mix of unexpected strength and too familiar decay. The muscle is almost all in the country's robust foreign receipts. Despite the aid and trade boycott mounted against Egypt by other Arab nations after the peace treaty signing, Cairo can easily meet its foreign exchange needs. The largest source of funds is the money sent home by Egyptians working abroad; this will total $2 billion in 1979, up from just $200 million six years ago. Suez Canal revenues will bring in $600 million and could rise to $1 billion a year...
...Brock University, Ontario. For Yacowar, Allen is 'a serious, probing artist with a consistent and distinctive vision.' His films are indeed suspiciously clone-like, but 'serious, probing'? By what standards? Well, says Yacowar, Manhattan can be compared with 'Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion, another classic analysis of the decay of western culture.' Oh, and 'like Kafka, Allen makes Jews of us all.' We might wonder just what manner of man this is whose films can unite Kafka and Renoir. Yacowar has his answers...