A Cirtus of Experiments
The Royal Institution's Annual Christmas Lectures for Young People. This 150th series is given by Professor Eric M. Rogers of Princeton and the Nuffield Foundation. The last of six programmes Seeing Atoms at Last
More about nuclear power stations and safety. The new man-made element plutonium and nuclear reactors which breed fissionable material. See the great graph which predicts possibilities of fission and fusion. Energy from nuclear fusion: the hope of the future, is unattained as yet, except for the Sun, which is a great nuclear furnace. Again a double story: electrons - sometimes as bullets, sometimes as waves - according to what we ask of them. Thence a glimpse of a new atom model. See a distorted room and a measured skeleton as warning examples against taking thinking-models literally.
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