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...tools of the high-energy physicists are enormous machines???cyclotrons, synchrotrons, linear accelerators?that smash atoms and subatomic particles to bits and expose them to study. Already, the physicists know of some 30 particles that form atoms or can be knocked out of them by high-energy collisions. The great challenge confronting the physicist is to formulate sets of laws describing the interaction of such particles and, at an even deeper level, to explain the reason for their existence. Therein lies the key to the understanding of the matter?and of all nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the Year: Men of the Year: U.S. Scientists | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...MACHINES???Stuart Chase? Macmillan?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man v. Machine | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Planes. Four U. S. Army Douglas cruisers?heavier-than-air machines???left Santa Monica, Calif., to travel westward around the world. They expect to approach Los Angeles from the East on or before July 17. 'Round-the-world has not been done before in any kind of flying machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Round the World | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

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