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This strong attraction of one quark for another has actually hindered the great quark hunt. To split a proton into its constituent quarks, for example, would require an atom smasher at least 30 times more powerful than any yet built by man. But scientists believe that the celestial processes generating cosmic rays are energetic enough to produce free quarks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physics: The Hunting of the Quark | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

Last week the long suspense ended. The world's most powerful atom smasher, which will generate 200 billion electron volts of energy, will be built in Weston, Ill., a tiny (pop. 400) village 35 miles west of Chicago. A corn-belt community that began as a housing development only seven years ago, Weston is in for some very big changes. Its growth was stunted when the original promoter ran into financial difficulty and pulled out, and it remains so undeveloped today that it has no doctor, no school, no movie house, not even a store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: Near the Tree | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...huge atom smasher, which will occupy a 6,800-acre preserve, will be completely covered with earth for radiation shielding, is targeted to go into operation in 1975. Assuming that Congress appropriates the funds, construction will begin in two years. By enabling scientists to break down the atom into more fundamental pieces than ever before, the smasher could eventually produce discoveries on the magnitude of those of the electron and neutron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: Near the Tree | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...final site consideration (the others: California, Colorado, Michigan, New York and Wisconsin), Illinois by next month will be the only one with a Democratic Governor. But the Atomic Energy Commission insisted that the controlling factor was Weston's proximity to existing scientific centers. After all, the new atom smasher will be situated just 17 miles from the AEC's sprawling Argonne National Laboratory and less than an hour's drive from Chicago, where Enrico Fermi first split the atom in 1942. In a sense, the AEC's plum has fallen near the tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: Near the Tree | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

...secure from parody. She was a woman so extravagantly beyond the normal pale that even her avowed enemies, the whisky dispensers, had trouble believing she was real. Ultimately they became her most devoted allies, hiring bands to accompany her on lecture tours, subscribing to her house organ, The Smasher's Mail, and cheerfully providing the beer kegs that she mounted on street corners all over the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lady & the Hatchet | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

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