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Theoretical consequences might be enormous. The hydrogen atom, with its single proton and single electron, is the simplest atomic structure. It is therefore the starting point for investigation of the fundamental mysteries of matter. The atoms of other elements are more complicated, but presumably their constituent particles follow the same basic laws...
...human proton-buster's problem: how to make a machine that approaches the power of a cosmic ray bullet. The most powerful machine in existence (General Electric's betatron) develops 100 million electron volts. Physicists now aim at one billion volts. The big news at Berkeley: they are getting warm...
...biggest week for nuclear physics since the Smyth Report came out. Scientists of the General Electric Co.' announced that their mighty betatron, which generates 100 million-volt X rays, had shattered not only atoms but also attacked the sub-atomic particles themselves. Bombarding neutrons and protons with their powerful X ray, the G.E. men had produced mesons*-particles whose mass is partway between a proton and an electron...
Mesons disintegrate in a few millionths of a second. They had been observed before only in the debris left by the impact of a cosmic ray. Now, for the first time, they could be bred in the laboratory. What happens to the proton (or neutron) after the meson leaves it? One theory: it turns into no-one-yet-knows-what. Another theory: the X ray "condenses" into matter within the particle, and then bursts out again in the form of a meson...
From deep in the central U.S. a puckish zephyr danced northward, trailing an unseasonable perfume of spring across the central and maritime provinces. Dandelions bloomed in Hamilton. Three tulips popped up outside Fort Erie's police station; Elgin County farmers got in some early plowing; a Proton farmer tapped some maple trees, found the sap running. At Goderich the courthouse lawn had to be trimmed. Bees and mosquitoes began buzzing around Dundalk. A flock of blackbirds chirped near Truro...