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Indeed, strong evidence exists for this argument. Certainly, the bulk of Federal aid in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is distributed among the chemists, physicists, and applied mathematicians. For example, the government gives $5 million yearly to cover the administrative costs of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, a machine which cost $11.6 million in Federal funds to build. Significantly, the $6 million the government put into medical research in 1960 more than doubled the combined total offered that year to the Schools of Public Health, Dental Medicine, Education, Divinity, Public Administration, Law, Business Administration, and Design...
...Cambridge Electron Accelerator is said to have cost more than all of the equipment theretofore available at Harvard for work in the natural sciences. At Stanford University work is beginning on an accelerator project which will cost $114 million, or about as much as the entire Stanford endowment. These things are not bad, striking as they may be. But they do present very real problems to any university which wants to be or to remain a center for the development of truly universal knowledge...
...miles of the earth's surface. Over the Pacific it stays 500 miles above the surface. In latitude, it extends 1,800 miles north and south of the magnetic equator. It is 3,100 miles thick, reaching well into the Van Allen belt of natural radiation. Its spiraling electrons, which originated in the high altitude test explosion, have as much as 1.,00,000 electron-volts of energy. At their strongest, they are about ten times as intense as the natural radiation...
...archaeologist's kit, there are more than a dozen other methods that allow him to date the objects he unearths. By measuring the electron emissions from reheated pottery with extremely sensitive instruments, scientists are able to determine when the pottery was first fired. This technique, called thermoluminescence, was used to date Greek pot shards from the Agora, near Athens, back to the 9th century...
They found their answer in the enormous alternating gradient synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. That mighty machine can spin protons up to the energy of 33 billion electron-volts, bounce them off targets and produce all sorts of atomic debris-including neutrinos. Physicists figured that any new type neutrinos created by this monstrous slingshot should have as much as i billion volts of energy. They would not be nearly so numerous as the neutrinos flooding out of a nuclear reactor, but their high energy should allow them many more ways of interacting with matter; as a result...