Word: electronized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's most powerful atom-smasher, as planned at present, will not be in the U.S., but in Switzerland. The machine may be powerful enough (30 billion electron volts) to create new matter-even a new kind of matter-out of energy...
...even create negative protons, which would be really sensational. Ordinary protons are positively charged. Combined with one or more negative electrons, they form the familiar atoms of ordinary matter. But scientists have already created positive electrons (positrons). This suggests that it may be possible to create negative protons (not yet named nega-tons). Combined with positrons, these should form "reversed matter." An atom of "anti-hydrogen," for instance, would have a negative proton as its nucleus, with a positron instead of an electron revolving around...
...inspector sought out the society's treasurer, Dr. George B. Pegram. The doctor instantly suggested an oddly named suspect: Bayard Pfundtner Peakes, a former member, who had written a crackpot paper entitled "So You Love Physics" in which he argued that there was no such thing as an electron. Peakes had been railing at the society by mail for months for refusing to publish him. His letters had been mailed from six different Boston addresses...
Astronomer Fritz Zwicky of Cal Tech thinks there is another way to pack matter tightly. Normal atoms contain one electron for each proton in the nucleus. If the electrons could be persuaded to unite with the protons, each pair would form a neutron. This reaction does not take place under normal conditions; the electrons circle forever, and the protons stay in the nucleus. But Zwicky believes that under the strange and violent conditions that exist in certain large stars, electrons may unite with protons...
...electron microscope is man's sharpest artificial eye, but it can examine only dead, dry objects. The electron stream that it uses instead of light requires a high vacuum, so no water or water vapor can remain in the instrument. The usual method of preparing microorganisms or viruses for electron microscopy is to dry them at ordinary temperatures before putting them in the instrument...