Word: decays
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...immediate consequence of this theory, as Georgi points out, is that the decay of protons is inevitable. Physicists have spent many years hoping to observe such an event, he says, but to date, they have not been able to detect any evidence of proton decay...
Despite the excitement generated at first by his theory, Georgi says that within ten years, it became clear that protons do not decay as fast as SU(5) theory predicts. By then, scientists had reached a consensus that the phenomenon of proton decay was a credible hypothesis, though difficult to confirm...
...Georgi says he remains hopeful that proton decay will be detected...
...army rank and file, more than half of whom are draftees, will support the military leadership. French Arabist Francois Burgat predicts that the army maneuver will be viewed as an attempt by a select group of officers to hold on to their privileges while Algeria sinks further into economic decay. "I would not be surprised to see factions of the army break away and begin fighting the officers who are now in power," he warns. Whatever the outcome, it is plain that the military has not imposed a solution -- it has merely postponed the day of reckoning with Algeria...
Given the prime swatch of real estate directly across from Philadelphia, the project has generated plenty of interest from future tenants and developers. But there remains the disturbing possibility that Camden's waterfront may become a daylight colony of suburbanites surrounded by a sea of urban decay. The ripples, say the skeptics, might never extend beyond the edge of the Delaware...