I have not yet

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the ordinary things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes. There the … Read more

There are thousands of

There are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn’t function if one of those chains of molecules isn’t there, and you start looking at the complexity of life and the mystery of life, and then start thinking about things like the twenty universal constants, … Read more

Over the last century,

Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose. Much important information about the target atoms or nuclei or their assemblage has been obtained in this way. In witness of this importance one can point to the unusual concentration of scattering … Read more