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...photon, or light particle, was the carrier of electromagnetism. In 1979 in Hamburg, West Germany, they discovered the gluon, which conveys the strong force. This year CERN scored its crowning achievement by confirming the existence of three particles, the W+, W-and Z°, known collectively as intermediate vector bosons. They were predicted to be the agency of the weak force. That feat was a coup for a resurgent European physics community struggling to get back on its feet after World War II. It also irritated American scientists, who had regarded themselves as the world champions in high-energy physics...
From a starting point of virtually zero in 1976, sales of software for personal computers have been on a vector that seems to be pointed straight up. Revenues reached $600 million in 1981, $1 billion last year, and are expected to hit $1.5 billion in 1983, according to SRI International, a West Coast research firm. Prospects of dizzying profits have lured at least 230 companies into the business of creating software. Venture capitalists with bulging bank accounts are showered with proposals from novice entrepreneurs looking for start-up financing. By 1990, industry revenues could reach $12 billion. That will make...
...which shows its hand in the disintegration, or "decay," of certain nuclei, like those of uranium 235. Post-Einstein theorists in the late 1960s succeeded in finding a unity between electromagnetism and the weak force. Their "electroweak" theory postulated the existence of a family of three particles called intermediate vector bosons (after the Indian physicist S.N. Bose...
...after these computers, known in the trade as "professional work stations" and designed to hang at the branches of a network of similar machines. Price tags range as high as $10,000; Altos, Corvus, Control Data, Cromemco, Digital Equipment, Fortune, Hewlett-Packard, Nippon Electric, North Star, Olivetti, TeleVideo, Toshiba, Vector, Victor, Xerox and Zenith are among the biggest names in this upscale but increasingly crowded field. Even proletarian Apple is joining the crowd with its long-awaited Apple IV (code-named Lisa), due to be unveiled in mid-January. Lisa's probable price range: somewhere between...
...dollar has been on an upward vector against nearly all the world's major currencies for a full two years, confounding predictions of bankers, businessmen and economists alike. They fully expected the greenback to begin weakening this year as interest rates fell, because much of its strength derives from the massive inflow of foreign capital attracted by the high returns on U.S. investments. Instead, the dollar has kept getting stronger, largely because inflation has been declining so rapidly in the U.S. and returns are still high compared with those in other countries, where interest rates have also dropped...