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...deepest thrust into the infinitesimal, he can thank a microscope that sees things without the help of light. This is the electron microscope. With it, in Camden, N. J., Berlin, London, Toronto and Pasadena last week, scientists studied things 50 times smaller than they could see a decade...
Died. Sir Joseph John ("J. J.") Thomson, 83, Master of Trinity College (Cambridge), Nobel Prizewinning (1906) physicist and author; in Cambridge, England. Small, easygoing Sir Joseph helped bridge the gap between the old & new physics by establishing the electron theory. Before his discoveries, atoms were considered indivisible; Thomson and colleagues figured out that each atom consists of a positively-charged nucleus surrounded by negatively-charged electrons...
Early last year news came from Germany, Denmark and France that hit physicists like a punch in the solar plexus. The massive atom of uranium, heaviest of the 92 elements, had been cracked by neutrons (electrically neutral subatomic particles), yielding some 200,000,000 electron-volts of energy per cracked atom (TIME, Feb. 6, 1939). These uranium explosions or "fissions" were most effectively touched off by slow moving neutrons of only one-thirtieth of one electron-volt energy, so that the energy profit was 6,000,000,000 to 1. Prospect of using atomic power-the old dream of sending...
Overt purpose of the book is to examine the findings of modern science for light on the domain commonly accepted as beyond science. Quantum Mechanics (mathematics of the atom) finds that a subatomic particle, e. g., an electron, is accompanied by immaterial waves of energy which seem to guide it. Indeed it is only by analysis of its "pilot wave" that the speed and position of an electron can be determined, and then only probably, not certainly. Immaterial waves need not be tangled up with matter at all. Like radio waves, they can exist in or travel through nothingness...
Take something immensely more complex than an electron: a living cell. When the cell is "ready" to divide, the centrosome separates and moves to opposite sides, the chromosomes line up in the middle and then split evenly; then some thing nips in the sides of the cell to a wasp-waisted constriction, and finally the cell divides into two healthy duplicates of its original self. Biologists have the devil's own time trying to explain this mysterious, well-drilled maneuver. In Strömberg's view, it is initiated and controlled by an "immaterial wave of organization." Though...