Word: fusion
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...death and birth of stars." By the 1950s, astronomers realized that most of the universe's 90-odd elements, or types of atoms, had been "cooked" not at the moment of the universe's explosive birth but inside the hot furnaces of subsequently formed stars in fusion processes similar to those that occur when a hydrogen bomb detonates. But as they gazed out upon the heavens with their telescopes and spectrometers, astronomers found that the composition of stars varied enormously, containing different atoms and in different proportions...
...Fowler, together with three colleagues, Sir Fred Hoyle and Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge, provided the answer. In exquisite detail, they showed how the stellar furnaces forge progressively heavier atoms out of lighter ones. They provided a number of pathways for the fusion reactions, including one in which a giant star eventually explodes in a super nova and unleashes forces powerful enough to create the heaviest known naturally occurring elements such as uranium. Fowler subsequently refined these ideas so he could predict exactly what ele ments would be found in a particular type of star. These predictions have been al most...
...never made, and we can only do what we were destined to do. Golding's earnestness in portraying this feral landscape is obvious on every page of his books. But the highest art is achieved through surprise, the intimation of a pattern established and then inspiringly broken, the fusion of particulars creating a light in which the familiar looks prophetic. Against such possibilities, Golding must be judged on his accomplishments and pronounced a master of textbook despair...
THIS DESIRE to unite his "two minds" and escape the horror of his past leads Brill to America. There, with the aid of a rich benefactress, he founds a primary school devoted to "the fusion of scholarly Europe and burnished Jerusalem...astronomers and God-praises uniting in a majestic dream of peace." However, his impatience and frustration with the mediocrity of both students and teachers soon causes his sense of alienation to resurface. Not until Hester Lilt, a renowned academic, enrolls her daughter Beulah in the school does Brill begin to show a genuine interest in the progress...
...Land bemoaning "a heap of broken images," but wound up shoring "fragments against ruins." Since life evidently lay in pieces, perhaps it ought to remain that way. Rene Magritte drew disembodied noses and nude torsos stuffed into bottles, while Henry Moore sculpted a Two-Piece Reclining Figure, a perfect fusion of leisure and fragmentation...