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Cloud Chamber:
“Euclidian and noneuclidian geometry assume that you can have a plurality of lines going through the same point at the same time. Yet you find empirically that you cannot get two actions through the same point at the same time. If one is there, the other impinges on it. As a physicist bombards a group of atoms in a cloud chamber with a neutron, he gets an interference. The neutron runs into a nuclear component and either separates the latter in to smaller components or they bounce apart. The unique angles in which they separate or bounce off identify both known or unknown atomic nucleus components.”
¶ Citations
- AAUW JOURNAL, May 1965, P. 176
