Word: electronic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University has been engaged in bitter negotiations with the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) for almost a year to determine who will control the operation of the $12 million Cambridge Electron Accelerator (CEA). Although Harvard and the AEC will probably sign a contract within two weeks for $5 million a year to operate the accelerator, neither the Faculty nor the Administration is pleased with the final contract provisions...
...University clashed with the federal government last week over certain provisions in the contract to operate the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. Similar incidents at other colleges impelled the NSA Congress last summer to pass a resolution warning of the threat to universities' autonomy posed by heavy reliance on federal funds...
According to Linsley's calculations, the primary ray that caused all the ruckus must have had 100 billion billion electron-volts of energy-three billion times the power of man's biggest atom smashers. If the cosmic-ray invader consisted of only one proton, as Linsley believes, its fierce energy must have made it weigh 100 billion times as much as a normal earthly proton...
...particles that have been speeded up by magnetic fields that are known to exist be tween the stars. But though this theory serves well enough for ordinary rays, the Milky Way galaxy to which the sun and its planets belong lacks magnetism strong enough to load 10²° electron-volts on a lone proton. Nothing else in the galaxy, such as an exploding supernova, could do the job either...
University officials have indicated that Harvard probably would have refused to sign the CEA contract too, if some of the more objectionable provisions had not been removed. Such action would have left the AEC with an $11-million electron accelerator and no one to operate...