ATOM-SMASHER’S TWO JOBS
To be built in Britain at a cost of £50.000, and expected to be ready in two years, an atom-smashing plant tailed a ‘‘synchroton” will also perform the opposite process of creating matter from energy.
The synchroton will be housed underground at Glasgow University. A huge electromagnet will produce a beam ol electrons, and to minimize the dangers of radio-activity it will be enclosed in a concrete tunnel at least. 20ft. below road level. It will be necessary for scientists to be isolated from the beam by a concrete wall. The electrical pressure from the beam is expected to be so great that many kinds of atom will probably be shattered to fragments instead of just split.
“But’,’ says Professor 0. I. Dee, Professor of natural philosophy at Glasgow
University, who is in charge of the project, “an even more important use will be the actual creation of particles called ‘mesatrons’—in a sense making something out of nothing. This is changing energy into' matter—just the opposite of what happens when the atom bomb explodes and changes a small amount of matter into colossal energy.”
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Lake County Mail, Issue 4, 18 June 1947, Page 7
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187ATOM-SMASHER’S TWO JOBS Lake County Mail, Issue 4, 18 June 1947, Page 7
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