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Word: serpukhov (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light, the strange effects predicated by the relativity theory begin to take a toll: the proton's mass becomes much larger than that of the stationary targets. Much of the proton's energy is spent simply in pushing the target particle. The Soviet Union's giant Serpukhov atom smasher, for example, accelerates protons to 70 billion electron volts, but the actual useful energy on impact is only 12BeV...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Toward Asymptopia | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

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