Word: proton
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...comparatively simple as a heart cart that contains everything from a cardiac pacemaker to a supply of oxygen, and can, in effect, rush the entire equipment of a hospital emergency room directly to a heart patient's bedside. Or it may be as vastly complex as the proton gun currently being used by Harvard Neurosurgeons Raymond Kjellberg and William Sweet...
...great military fear is that one nation might make technological advances that would enable it to deny the use of space to others. For this reason the U.S. is apprehensive about the expected launching, probably next year, of a Russian-manned space laboratory called the Proton-a huge, stable reconnaissance and surveillance "island in the sky" manned by relays of crews. The Proton may be the prototype of a command ship that could control whole fleets of spaceships capable of denying to the U.S. the "near space" between the atmosphere and the 600-mile-high Van Allen Belt. Washington...
...produce new and revealing glimpses of the subatomic world by their reactions with atomic nuclei. SLAC has also been designed for the eventual addition of another 715 klystrons, which would increase its energy level to 40 BEV, exceeding even the output of Brookhaven National Laboratory's 33 BEV proton-accelerating synchrotron, currently the world's most powerful accelerator...
Ramsey participated in the discovery, some years ago, that the heavy hydrogen nucleus is egg-shaped rather than spherical. More recently, with other Harvard scientists, he has been working to determine the distribution of electrical charges within the proton. In 1960, his laboratory built the first atomic hydrogen maser, which could become the most accurate atomic clock in the world...
...Hour Trip. Not all solar flares are accompanied by dangerous proton outbursts, and the solar patrol will have to take care not to set off a false alarm that might unnecessarily abort a costly Apollo mission. But on the basis of past observations, the patrolmen know that if a flare is large and bright enough, if it is located close enough to a sunspot and is the source of strong radio signals over a wide range of frequencies, its appearance almost always heralds a hail of high-energy protons...