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...target was tiny-two-millionths of an ounce of a heavy, man-made isotope. The "bullets" were even smaller -atomic nuclei fired by an atom smasher. But the results of the experiment which were reported last week at a Washington meeting of the American Physical Society, made big news in the world of nuclear physics. A new chemical element, No. 105, has been created and identified...
...number of scientists had previously suggested cosmic rays as an ideal weapon to use in the quark hunt. If one of these high-speed bits of matter struck an atomic particle, they calculated, its tremendous energy would accomplish what no man-made atom smasher can do: split that particle into its constituent quarks. A particle with an energy of 200 billion electron volts, for example, might be enough to pry apart the three tightly bound quarks that theoretically constitute a proton. But a machine that can supply such energy will not be available until the AEC completes its giant accelerator...
Inevitably a virgin is seduced (twice in fact it's so funny) and a teetotalling bar-smasher gets roaring drunk, but this particular show extends its faithfulness to formula a bit too far. Individual lines like "you boys couldn't flatten out a wrinkled postage stamp" ring a little hollow. I wondered during the first act whether the show would stoop to the Beach Party level of repartee with one character emphatically commenting "You can say that again," and his buddy really saying it again. It was there all right, a little dressed up, but dismally there all the same...
Like the steel racket, "the Smasher," as Spalding calls it, is open-throated to cut wind resistance, increase the speed and power of a player's swing. Unlike the T2000, which has its strings attached to a crown inside the frame, the aluminum racket is strung conventionally, through nylon-lined holes in the racket's head. This increases the size of the "sweet spot," the area of the racket face on which the ball can be hit with good effect, and makes the racket less likely to spin or twist on shots hit near...
Died. Charles C. Lauritsen, 76, nuclear physicist who built one of the earliest atom smashers and was part of the team that developed the atomic bomb; after a long illness; in Pasadena, Calif. Working at the California Institute of Technology in 1934, Lauritsen, with his atom smasher, became the first to produce neutrons with artificially accelerated particles...