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STRUCTURE OF ATOMS

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY

9. 1933.

coined some twenty years ago to represent the relative sizes of the atom (which, before those dis-

solid), and the newly-postulated atomic nucleus, around which a crowd of satellite negative parti-

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coveries, had been belleved to be REDUCTIONS BY THE BLUE

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The Blue Funnel Line have decided faren to nature of ultimato physical realicles were supposed to bo revol- ties needed revision. It was found ving. It was easy to imagine that to reduce their passenger

The reductions vary in extent to the that no matter with what gas the the attraction of the positive nu- and from ali poris east of Port Bald. on the negative satellites different ports, but to the Straits discharge-tube was filled, and no claus matter what kind of glass was would tend to keep these latter Settlements, for example, the in its walls, a similar stream of from flying off into spaco-much rate represents a saving of approx. particles resulted. These part!ns the sun's attraction koeps the mately 11 per cent,

Messrs. Altrèd Holt and Co. bava clea word always negatively planets revolving round it; while

made these reductions after consulta- charged, and were always of the the repulsion between two position with the P. and O. Ling and the aamo alze, about 1,800 times tively-charged nuclei would make various Continental lines running to smaller than the hydrogen atom. it impossible for them to approach the East, as a concession to those too close together, thus giving engaged in baziness in the Far East The Question Answered.

the effect of impenetrability. And whose financial position baa Were these tiny particles, then, yet a swiftly-moving particle might seriously affected by the world trado Europeans, returning constituent of all matter? And manage to shoot right through depression. why were they always negatively the atom, just as a comet does home on leave from the East, will thus have the bonent of lower charged? Was it not possible to through the solar system. produce similar streams of post- This, then, has the picture of travelling expenses. There is no lo tively-charged particles? Those the atom which the physicists revenus received which would other and similar questions at once sug- built up for us in laborious, but wise justify the reductions that have

fic minds of the time.

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gested themselves to the scienti-fascinating experiment: It was been made.

The old and new single and returp The answers to these questions tem, consisting of a central sun base rates from London nad Livor came quickly. Yes, it was post-round which revolved a compli-pool compare as follow: ble to produce streams of positive-rated float of electrons in their ly-charged particles Indeed, varying orbits. The scientists. those amazing substances, there were even able to calculate vory Adon cently-discovered radioactive ple- approximately the number of Colombo ments, radium, uranium, thorium pinnet-electrons in the atoms and the rest, seemed to send out the various elements, and thus ex-

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"Periodic famous negatively charged Classification", telling us why a tively-and particles, with never-diminishing certain metal, for example, should Intensity, and without ever dimin have a certain series of chemical fshing in volume themselves! properties, and why it should have Streams of positively-charged par- marked affinities with another ticles could be produced, too, in metal at a definite distanco from discharge-tube, by the simple do it in the list of chemical elements. vico of perforating the negative Chemistry and physics seemed to electrode and examining the space unite in sponsoring this astound- behind it. But-this was the ing theory. puzzling thing-it seemed impos- alble to produce positively-charg

The Quantum Theory.

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spectre is the Quantum Theory, greater than the negative parti- the topic which has chiefly ab-ing to form darkness!). cles. The reason for this we now sorbed the recent interest of phy-! The remained, true know to be very simple. I may sicists. I can hardly speak here as th old facts remote, the BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. these positive particles are atoms of this baffling problem, for the theory was caught up and expand- (or something very like atoms) matter is too difficult for a popu ed into a fullor and more com- with one or two negative particles ar talk such as this, but I may plete synthesis; and modern phy- perhape draw your attention to sics has found again Newton's knocked out of them, leaving the lesson which the history of streams of flying particles, not in- them, of course, positively charg natural science at all its stagea deed of light, but of electricity.

Further evidence necumulated. holds for the physicist faced, as These streams of particles, both we are faced to-day, with new and So it has ever been. Nothing in negative and positive, could pass apparently Insoluble problems. The tested by experiment and con-

data, to-day so often be Tore, seem to overthrow previous cidental accrations which go to conclusions. In every age new dat the building-up of any theory and have been added thus to the facta

perhaps anticipate any say that

cd.

solid matter must In reality con-

physica or in life-that has been

solid bodies. Once it was recognized that they were particles (and not a wave-motion, as many European

is ever wholly false; it always physicists had claimed). the only of experience, and the result has are the real evidence for ita truth, heen seemingly to jeopardize accontains much that is true, and logical conclusion to draw was, that the solid bodies were not cepted hypotheses. The fast that much, very much, that no later really solid bodies at all; in other light casts sharp shadows, for theory will overthrow.

example, seemed to demonstrate

And so, despite the puzzling words, that what seemed to be clearly that light could not be

Quantum Theory, much, very sist of a sort of porous net-work. wave-malion; and so for con- shadows cast at present by the turica it was held, and held oven by a Newton, to be a night of par- much in all that I have been de- New Atomic Conception. The suggestion was at once put ticles. This view was accepted,scribing will certainly remain as sics of the future. The changes forward that the atom, which up largely on the authority of New-the legacy of our age to the phy- till then had been considered as ton himself, until another great made will be small, for wave-motion smaller, probably, than seems at a solid lump, might perhaps con- physicist, Huyghens, came along sist of a tiny central core (the and showed that a larger positive particle, perhaps?) of very short wave-length would present the case; and they will surrounded at a relatively const also cast sharp shadows; and he take the form of deepening, rather derable distance by smaller negu went on to predict astonishing than reversing past conclusions. tive particles- fly in a cathe affects such as interference frin- So much one can predict without

phet! dral" was a happy comparison ges (two beams of light combin-risk to one's reputation as a pro-

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