Word: matter
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Lambda particles are short-lived packets of matter created when high-energy protons hit protons at rest. Since each particle is presumed to have its "anti" counterpart, scientists have long been looking for anti-lambda. Faint traces of the elusive particle showed last year on photographic plates exposed to the 6 billion-volt Berkeley Bevatron, but the plates were too small to tell much of the anti-lambda story...
Identifying anti-lambdas and their relatives is no mere collecting program, like filling out a series of postage stamps. The behavior of each new particle can be studied, yielding bits of knowledge not only about ordinary matter but about antimatter as well. It may have anti-gravity threading through its masses. There is even a possibility-something to think about, at least-that in the strange world of antimatter, time may run in reverse...
...somnolent Grandfather Clock. Without prompting devices. Actor Keeshan, 32, meanders around the set using man-to-man language that can make a four-year-old feel almost grown up. He handles his influence on open minds with care: "There'll be no slapstick and no horror, no matter how innocently presented...
...Miss Universe entrant, who defied her archbishop by insisting that she would take part in the contest despite his ban (TIME, July 20-27). With outside help-including at least one layman trained in theology-Contestant Ingersoll last week churned out statements to document her own vision of the matter. The real issue, said Sue, is what happens when a Roman Catholic finds the charismatic (supernaturally graced) side of the church at odds with the canonical, and his private view in conflict with the church hierarchy's. Most non-Catholics, says Sue, believe that in such a conflict...
...matter how it is spliced, it still comes out as a summertime snack of bagels and yaks...