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Perhaps in response to Reagan's recent admonishments on human-rights abuses, Moscow made its offer to allow Bonner, 62, an exit visa to seek medical treatment in the West. She and her husband Sakharov, a distinguished physicist, are kept in "internal exile" in Gorky, an industrial city 250 miles from Moscow. In a telegram received by a friend on Friday, Bonner indicated that she would probably not leave until the end of the month-- after the summit is over...
...hearing before a House subcommittee, physicists from the U.S. and Europe last week stressed the importance of the mammoth project for American science. "By building the SSC you will have predominance in this particular field," said Carlo Rubbia, a renowned physicist at the CERN accelerator center near Geneva. His testimony supported the view of Presidential Science Adviser George Keyworth, who earlier this year warned that "it would be a serious blow to U.S. scientific leadership if that facility were built in another country...
...several locations around a track, the particles are either smashed into metallic targets or steered to collide head-on with one another. Most of the new machines opt for the collision technique, which produces more energy. Explains Alvin Tollestrup, a Fermilab physicist: "It's the difference between a semi crashing into a small car and two semis crashing head-on." Some of the tremendous energy of those impacts is fleetingly transformed into strange particles that are thought to have existed in the very first moments of the universe. Before the unstable fragments decay back into energy and more familiar bits...
...means a certainty. Critics are worried that its cost will drain money from other worthwhile projects, and growing concern about the federal deficit could, at best, delay congressional approval. But many scientists are convinced that the big collider will eventually be built. Says James Cronin, a physicist at the University of Chicago: "If we're serious about finding out about nature, we have...
...physicist, who has been exiled to Gorky since 1980 for his criticism of Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, told his stepchildren that he is recovering from losing 44 pounds during his fast...