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...will explain to the audience in simple terms the meaning of the electron, of micro-amperes, and the cathode rays. The properties of radium and uranium with their mysterious emanations, which man is as yet totally unable to control, will also be discussed at length and a demonstration will be offered of the versatility of vacuum tubes as the electric eye, the electric ear, and the electric touch...
...little symbol e representing a quantum began seriously to restrict the old free & easy mechanics. Nevertheless the work of reconciliation began. Denmark's Niels Bohr ingeniously yoked classical laws and quantum laws to predict the probable interorbital jumps of electrons. His famed Correspondence Principle was postulated in 1913, was later abandoned when it was found not to work for atoms having more than one electron...
...different point of departure led to the solution presented last week. Maxwellian theory took no notice of the size of energy-radiating particles, handled them as mathematical points. By 1925 subatomic theory had reached such a stage that electrons (which Maxwell did not know existed) had to be considered as waves as well as corpuscles-hence as abstractions. Reduced to its simplest terms, Professor Bern's latest work elevates them to the status of physical entities. By introducing a symbol to represent the electron's radius, by investing the electron with the four Einsteinian dimensions of time & space...
...result, stated Professor Born, the positions and velocities of orbital electrons may now both be calculated. The Uncertainty Principle advanced six years ago by Professor Werner Heisenberg held that the position or velocity of a given electron might be observed, never both. It has been widely accepted by theorists ever since, was reiterated last June by Niels Bohr at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago...
...receiver of this radio system Dr. Zworykin calls a kinescope. It looks like the iconoscope. In the tube's neck is an oscillating cathode tube which weaves a pulsating beam of electrons over a fluorescent screen. Under the electron impacts the screen glows and thus shows the original iconoscoped scene...