… pound of fuel. 19 ... Tesla felt that a motor driven by atomic power would be irrational, for it would take far more energy to break up the atomic structure than could be rewarded by doing more useful work. Indeed, he considered atomic energy more impossible than the practical application …
… who worked on the Manhattan project (building the first atom bombs) were seduced by the scientific challenge and the … with the most elemental force of nature - the power of the atom. Their initial motive may have been legitimate … German laboratories had the necessary science to develop atomic weapons that could be used in Europe and even against …
… of inconceivable speed. These vibrations turn the atoms of the gases in the tubes into, as it were, little …
… of the phenomena of radio activity by some other means than atomic explosions. He held that all energy an atom exhibits … explained radio activity as a result of the shattering of atoms by sub-atomic cosmic particles. Whence did they come? …
… in general, immediately more effective in the smashing of atoms and the transmutation of matter. However, this tube will not open up a way to utilize atomic or subatomic energy for power purposes. 11 "It will …
… the element which gives ruby its color. The chromium atoms absorb ultra-violet, or green and yellow light, and … through juggling electrons, convert it to red light. The atoms are forced into a single powerful beam into the ruby … light is reflected back and forth in the crystal and the atoms are stimulated to give off more rays, thus producing …
… neutron bombs do not create the havoc that hydrogen and atomic bombs create is that the neutron bomb, when imploded, … protons, then there are neutrons within the nucleus of the atom and little electrons around it at various orbits. Now …
… was a transient time for physics; it brought the new atomic theories, the discarding of the ether, the … form acts to directly accelerate electrons attached to atoms, possibly causing atomic disruption. The spark discharge and lightning …
… carbon-button lamp the hardest material was shattered into atomic dust. One of the manifestations of such bombardment, … are caused by solaremitted particles that collide with the atoms in our upper atmosphere. Five years after Tesla's … that bombardment with "cosmic rays," i.e., highenergy subatomic particles, could make other substances radioactive, …
… "Let me say that has nothing to do with releasing so-called atomic energy. There is no such energy in the sense usually … as 15,000,000 volts, the highest ever used, I have split atoms — but no energy was released. I confess that before I …