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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, ̄ ̄ 1955. ̄

GILES hopes this will be` Junior's last report

nurse dracula

PRESS

aunty vera

eating asprins

dear editor.

this is the last time i shall be writing for giles is out of

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it nicely, when it was late and the ward was full of cigar smoke and you couldnt here yourself talk, because evryone was talking kider than you and

&.

moonshine as the nurses have only had three weeks of him and haven't seen! him in the marnings playing up old

4.

the

if

you.

vars was a much

Thospital and, he came out very ||the mon on the windess was shouting harry with evryone because hes a pretty cheap gut'

a while as mr

kwik.

me but he couldn't and needy-

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Some of his freinds are ́s

Arsk me. s ́still!

Chicer one than the one he

people are asking him if lord) the chef murk this was a hopky for viting the hospital with flours

Leven though he is not there whichmad in his ward. backs up his ether theory that they only came to see his beaverbrooks is still paying him and sent evryone home exept mr this is because he thought and don cokel was getting hit

One day a great big lif i write any more we'll all er since he has been home he \ · pretty nurses and not him for this junk and mr qiles Suya The could walk as good as you and the cheit nurse came in and said what got to go to work..

fing they didnt do it like this or Ivars of flours "came" with a' want at and nearly went headbiles and opened all the windows over heals down the steps. someone and made him cold.

Jasin hospital and mars giles say nice note which said. to mr put some drawing pins and grapes out

Tafshe has much more of it shes going from his freinds and victims of Has since he's been ill he cant to send him back to nurse dracula Ithe american third air forcelldraw for toffy and if he thinks' they were all sorry he was going homa stroke of luck for mr giles The thinks because a lot of people

{side his door for him to tread on and mr keeps grumbling at evryone and say^

What's best in Kowloon?

lot of friends all come to see him and they they didnt do it like that when he

then times and t Came later than usual because the don

fight was

giles caled them a rude name and went home. tile night before he came out a

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then he shits up. and mrs giles says that is a lot of old

Isoon be on the dole so her giles going to do the cartoon next week

and reckon it will be

this was

∙arful

this is my last le ter thats what

pe s.

mr

.

a fly with ink on his feet di

this bus

goo

him

gile's

Specialist is

Ithink my stuffs better than 1 going back to

the nurses said with best withes.

das it was mus giles birthday

that day so he gave the flours to Uber for a Present which was

mr giles in his FIVE BARBAR

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This is.

How Much Do The Atom Men Know?

T

HINKING

up new and ever more horrible fates for the human race has become almost scientific fashion.

By LES ARMOUR

This article needs careful reading. But, because the subject it deals with is of But no one has quite equalled the ominous note vital and universal interest, it merits it. struck by Prof. Sir Robert It has been written to help ordinary; unscien- Robinson when, in his pre- sidential address to the Bri- tific men and women to understand at tish Association for the Ad- least the bare bones of something which for better or worse will dominate their future.

of

Then it turned out that there were really 1wo kinds meson; the one Yukawa Just dicted exists all right but it appears only when

apart and it lives for only a few thousand millionths of a second. Then it breaks up into a neutral par- ticle and another, much lighter,

nucleus is torn

meson.

The neutral particle (called the "neutrino") escapes detec- tion and the second kind

at

meson (called the mu-meson to

distinguish it from the original and more powerful "pi-meson")

lives only about two millionths

a second.

of

That might have been the end of the story.

But, by that time. scientists

yours

The

Let me offer you another the last few years have seen far- THE

bchave

trulys

me

the hospital now! me gile's has Come out.

space man

London Express Service

Queen Will See

This

Film

London. company to get an industriāl were becoming sceptical. And THE Queen is to see an contract in America."

Alfred Hitchcock film of

most

vancement of Science, he wondered whether it was just possible that a variant of the hydrogen bomb might be the world on fire.

nucleus. They appear at one a description of a chair or o The reaction of the point, disappear, and reappear table must make sense.

The behind-the-scenes - story. physicists was swift and at another.

And. to gat Gn atom to example just to make that, reaching researches (in Britain

this year's royal .Alro clear. No one was going to change its pattern, you must clear. The quantum theory and the U.S.) in an effort to comedy-thriller "To Catch a performance is that the Queen set the world on fire. They give it a very large shock. It postulates that atomic particles discover how many more par-Thief," starring Grace Kelly had already agreed to ed were sure of it.

is as though you had a board sometimes

as though ticles there are.

and Cary Grant, at the "Richard III Bul,

'particle's Sir Robert wondered, with a number of holes in it they were waves and not par- Since the "meson"

Film Show

next discover Royal easily 100 percent sure rnd you titled the board at an ticles at all. But at other times are were they or might it be that they were angle and then tried to roll a it postulates that they behave among "cosmic rays"-immense month.

radiations from ball up from one hole into an- only 99.8 percent certain?

Seene above is typical of the other. Unless you give the bail enough push, it will simply roll you might think that the same somewhat of a mystery-scien- The news came

sur to back into the first hole.

wave tists wont to mountain tops thing can't be both a

prise:

had Alm⚫ people

** and a

the rays before they particle, just as a chair observe

that pected

Sir Laurence can't be a solid and THEY DON'T OBEY

a liquid

of Shake were flitered out by the car's version

"Richard III" Sir at the same time. But the re atmosphere. striction doesn't apply to atoms. SCIENTISTS WERE

John Gielgud and Sir Cedric It the scientists find it

Exwicko, was venient to think of the atomic STARTLED particle as being both at the same time, it doesn't matter.

All that matters is that the predictions come off.

Do the physicists know all about the atom?

The answer is 10, Scrutiny

of any contempor- ary scientific journal concem- ed will confirm that.

of

the

and not waves at all.

as though they were particles by powerful wae source is still punch-pacited close-ups.

con-

the

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with

ceriain to bo

But majority

A special charity promlero was arranged in the West End for the Royal Family on October 18-just 13 days before the night of the Royal Film Show. The Queen knew that "Richard 111" ran for two hours 40 minutes-but she agreed to the premiere.

was told

Then the Queen

--

mista

No physicist would say that FIXED LAWS

that if she went to a film show he did.

More serious, perhaps,

so soon before Is it possible that what the

the royal per that theory holds

formance the latter don't physicists

know might quantum

of votes 101 do not really

suffer so the

sponsors have dire results for the human atomic particles

Scientists of the kind

from Manchester favoured the Hitchcock film, sul University and Rochester Uni-which has already been "shown "Richard III" agreed to cancel race? It seems highly improb- obey fixed laws able.

that hold in the world of large

the premiere and submit the 15

versity took photographs of the at the Venlee, Festival. entities. The laws which govern But something could turn up

rays. But to pick up our story:

It has been the custom that picture in the ordinary way for larger objects can be formu-

performance. Whether or not the lack

Now The quantum theory-develop- A, then

the royal film should not have the royal knowledge is dangerous is lated in the form If..

What they saw startled them: been shown publicly anywhere they have lost both shows, "That means that if one ed by men like Planck, Broglie,

two "tracks" something that scientists, gov- B

Schrodinger, and

before. For this reason Olivier's Helsenberg they discovered

Every effort was mide this Blm tracks which picture was crnments and ordinary citizens event-say the collision of

left out of the year to avoid a repetition of It cue with a billiard ball-takes enabled scientists to forge ahead. on must decide for themselves.

no festival.

year's royal · film flasco, is not easy to understand. But place it will always be true

1930,

John apparent cause. happened.

Sir Alexander Korda, who, when "Beau Brummell"-a film another event-say the momentous con- that In view of the possible

"Richard III,"

about madness in one of the There could only be one ex- presenta

was scouences it is worth trying. mation of the bail in a certain Cockcroft (now Sir John and

Queen's ancestors, King George A neutral particle "extremely surprised": To

we understand,

at a certain speed boss of Britain's Harwell re- planation, must direction

scarch scare station)

I was shown. He said: "It seems to be as a (which would have left no stort our story a good way will follow it back: around the turn of the But atoms do not work that machine for splitting the atom. track) must have broken up and difficult for a prestige British

did it at Cambridge by formed itself into two opposite-film with Britain's leading Radcliffe, a Lord of Appeal, was century.

way. The best that can be taking electrically charged ly-charged particles.

actor to be selected for Britain's asked to head a viewing panel. and blasting

DAVID LEWIN of royal show as it is for a British These were now speed

they other atomic particles:

called them labda ond theta particles, Then a third, called sigma, ap- Deared.

TINY SUN WITH PLANETS

the They discovered atom was best conceived of as

that

And, about 1935, the started suddenly and with

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE

devised

every

kinds

Experiment showed that these were all kinds of "meson" ticle. And "bonds" gether.

the are meson's that hold atoms to-

worked out for them is statistical law of the kind "if atomic particles

them at tremendous A, then X probability of B."

The quantum theory sels out through the nuclei of

ators. At that time Ernest Ruther- the conditions for certain sta- ford (later Lord Rutherford) tistical, laws of this kind. was working with Frederick Now, all this must strike you Soddy, a chemist, at McGill as very strange. It is. And it is

to a vital point be remembered University in Montreal.

It looked as though of nuclear about the theories

thing had been solved. physics: they are strange.

But that look has tradition- Work is still going on. The ally been deceptive in science. scientists know something about they First of all, Cockcroft and these particles and how

the break up. But they are

not his colleagues proved that

the atem the very sure why or under Just nucleus of

solid what conditions or where the central "sun"is not a particle as had been supposed, process ends. ause It is composed of two particles.

One of them carries a

"planet's carries

o kind of miniature solar sys- And they are strange for fem: a liny sun with one or reason.

"plancta" more

Ground it.

revolving

like Atoms are not entities chairs and tables. No one has That idea worked; and, of ever seen an atom in the way course, It has became familiar that you see a chair or a table. to all of us.

Atoms are theoretical entities. But there was a major flaw We know about them

we have seen the

In it.

which plan

In a real solar system, the dials and the flashing lights on electric charge (the electron or slightest disturbance throws the the giant generators planets off course, Our own

have because

vapour Etam polar system survives there are no disturbances with cloud chambers and

"smash" them and because wors. The first is called the

trails

In

NEW FIELD OF INQUIRY

In a recent article published

in "The Twentieth Century,"

a negativ and the other because proton, the second, the neutron. Prof, RE. Peris, a fellow of And there "WT something the Royal Society, Professor of

bald them together.

If another star passed we bave seen great cities like

the planets would bo Hiroshima flattened by atomie curious about the forbo which mathematical Physics in Birm-

off course. And they bombs.

don't

atay off course.

AND THEN IT work like that. If an electron WAS SPLIT

In an atom, things

Is disturbed,

will quickly it

It seemed ingham University, and one

of

to be immensely powerful; yet, Britain's top scientiels, warned unlike any other physical force,

It seemed to work only at close coveries have opened up a field range and to lose its power on

distance. tinely at a

Other

And its place again. Tremen- Wo know about atoms by forces known to science taper dous forces are required to inference. They are elements off according to Newton's "In

it off course.

in a theory.

are

that it is clear that these dis-

which will require many years" work only to catalogue all the processes involving such new particles."

BINS

verse aquang" tow vehich holds He added that "physicists will A young Dane called. Niels The theory itself is a com- that the force dirindhed at: n not post until (the relations bes

was working Bohr who

of mathemaatles, rate equal to the inverse of the tween these particles), are with plicated plece

Toduced Rutherford

to a common simple some years later When we try to translate, It square of the distance.

Working on this, a Japanese principle, but we sro psiyet:In. (Rutherford had moved to Man- Into ordinary language' it.

Yukawa cal- the dark about the nature of choster by then) Onally evolved sults in a curious array of physicist called

of this this principle. theory to end the bewilder- statements ike thos I have culated that the nocret.

dores must be a kind of radio- Remember: thoms, ang meron mont. This Was called the mentioned

tion nend" "that the radiation must particles. ·Meson particles "quantum" theory.

The statements

curious The quantum theory is dim- because they are parts of a cludo a wholly new kind of the bonds" that, so far as wo

be called peticio. This,

know, hold the world together. cult to understand. But what patchwork theory, which

hap-meson

and he calculated that

50 long as we are "in the holds la thart electrons some pans to work. All that is it ought to be about 300 times dark about what holda times behave in very strange quired of it is that. It should the weight of an electron. loworld, together, there murt be ways..

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