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...knows for certain what makes supernovae explode. One theory: when they reach some unstable state their matter "collapses." The electrons circling around the atomic nuclei move inward and combine with the equal number of protons that they find in the nucleus, forming neutrons. These occupy very little space compared with the original atom, and can pass through ordinary matter...
...other hand, is Maddux pessimistic about his lacrosse team. He has the biggest squad in his experience out of which to build a team. Unfortunately he has but five more days in which to find the nucleus. Come next Tuesday, the authorities at Drexel Institute will be expecting a Harvard lacrosse team on its field. And also come next Tuesday the H.A.A. will be paying the way for only twenty players...
Notre Dame rooters (a noisy lot, centering around a small nucleus of alumni, widening out to include most of New York's Irish, and eventually embracing whole armies of subway sentimentalists) out-yelled N.Y.U.'s although it was N.Y.U.'s home town. They groaned as one when the Irish fell nine points behind. N.Y.U.'s Coach Howard Cann sent out an order to play slow, safe and cozy...
...special photographic plates at the spot where the mesons should hit. Then they turned on the cyclotron. When they developed the plates, they found the characteristic wavy tracks of negative mesons. Some of them ended in "stars," the atomic X-marking-the-spot where a meson has entered the nucleus of an atom and exploded it to bits...
...with the release of atomic energy. "It wouldn't be in the papers if it had." Not now, perhaps. But mesons are intimately concerned with the way that matter turns into energy and vice versa. They are not believed to exist already formed in a normal nucleus, but are created somehow when an energetic particle smashes into the unknown but enormously powerful field of force that holds the nucleus together. Study of mesons may tell what this force is. The next step (in the usual sequence of things) may be control of the force. This may lead...