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...team identified in a beam of subatomic debris created by Berkeley's 6.2-billion-volt bevatron, have the mass of ordinary protons but carry negative electric charges instead of positive charges. When a proton hits an antiproton, they annihilate each other, both turning into a powerful flash of gamma-ray energy...
...last six years, the Army Quartermaster Corps has been boasting about steaks, eggs, and other perishable foods preserved by the glamorous atomic-age process of putting them in plastic envelopes and shooting gamma or beta rays through them. The foods looked fine, tasted pretty good, and they could be kept edible without refrigeration practically forever, because all the microorganisms in them had been done to death by radiation. The Army proudly fed irradiated meals to newspapermen, top brass, and 20 Congressmen. Last week, with some embarrassment, the Army announced that it was shelving a $7,500,000 irradiated-food plant...
...first abnormal cells get that way? The experts cannot agree. Columbia University's Dr. Samuel Graff expresses the current consensus: all cancerous cells are the result of mutation, and mutations can be set off by many known factors-inherited defective genes, radiation by X or gamma rays, ultraviolet light, many chemicals, including some of the huge class of hydrocarbons, physical irritation of tissues, and certainly in some animal cancers by the invasion of a virus. There may be other, still unknown factors causing mutation...
...Edward Teller described a scheme to explode a nuclear charge 100 million miles away from the earth. The purpose would be to test a key assumption of Einstein's theory of relativity: that every kind of electromagnetic radiation (light, infrared, ultraviolet, radio waves, X rays and gamma rays) travels at the same speed-186,000 miles a second...
...nuclear charge is exploded 100 million miles from the earth, it will release all kinds of radiation at the same instant. According to relativity theory, the waves should still be traveling together when they reach the earth nine minutes later. But if gamma rays, for instance, prove to travel measurably faster than infrared through the vacuum of space, relativity, the supreme law of the universe, will have to be revised...