Archive for May 22nd, 2008
Nuclear Fission resources
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: May 22, 2008
Cockroft and Walton experiment; Artificial splitting of the atom, as published in Nature: The brightness of the scintillations and the density of the tracks observed in the expansion chamber suggest that the particles are normal a-particles. If this point of view turns out to be correct, it seems not unlikely that the lithium isotope of [...]
Murray Gell-Mann – why I took Physics
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: May 22, 2008
Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel prize-winning scientist who ‘discovered’ quarks and took the word from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, thought that Physics at high school was “the dullest course I had ever taken”, and he only applied to study physics at university “to please my father”. Taken from; When we were kids: how a child becomes a [...]
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