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According to ideas prevailing when Dr. Lamb started work shortly after World War II, the hydrogen atom could exist in two "states," both with the same energy. Dr. Lamb was skilled in the use of microwaves, which have the property of adding small amounts of energy to atoms they hit. He shot microwaves through one "state" of hydrogen and turned it into the other "state." Since energy was absorbed in this transition, he had proved that the two states of hydrogen did not contain the same amount of energy. The difference was small but extremely important from the point...
Anti-Matter. As a result of the new discovery, it is now theoretically possible to create anti-hydrogen. The atoms of ordinary hydrogen have a proton in their centers with a negative electron revolving around it. Anti-hydrogen would have an antiproton and a positron (positive electron). Both these "anti" particles are now available, but since anti-hydrogen cannot live in peace with ordinary matter, it will be hard to create and even harder to preserve for more than a few millionths of a second...
...Matter is being created continuously in the form of hydrogen. This is Hoyle's favorite and widest-sweeping theory. He admits that it cannot be proved conclusively at present because of man's incomplete knowledge of the infinitely small (mesons, neutrinos, etc.) and the infinitely large (galaxies). He believes that the mysteries must be connected somehow, and he hopes that a breakthrough on the meson front will tell astronomers why the galaxies appear to be flying apart through space, and whether the universe is still being created...
Only 70 seconds before the B-29 crew was to release the plane, an explosion ripped through the X-1A. The blast shook up Pilot Joseph Walker, but he carefully turned off cockpit switches, began jettisoning the rocket's highly volatile fuel (hydrogen peroxide, liquid oxygen, alcohol, water). Then he crawled groggily up into the belly of the B29. The B-29's civilian skipper, Stan Butchart, hoped to land his valuable cargo without further trouble, but the chase plane's pilot saw that there was still some dangerous fuel in the X-1A's tanks...
...similar design, and therefore behind U.S. models-will go into action within a year and will provide power on a competitive cost basis with coal-fed plants. The Russians also said that they are building the world's biggest atom smasher, one that will hurl protons (hydrogen nuclei) with energies as high as 10 billion volts against the nuclei of target atoms, enabling Soviet scientists to study the forces binding the atoms. In another paper read at Geneva, the Russians claimed to have discovered, by using radioactive isotopes as tracers, that plants photosynthesize protein as well as carbohydrates directly...