MAHER FROM ENERGY

Evening Star, Issue 25620, 22 October 1945, Page 5

MAHER FROM ENERGY

NEW SCIENCE ACHIEVEMENT HOT A COUNTER TO ATOMIC BOMB (Rec. 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 21. The General Electric Company’s laboratories have developed a machine which creates matter from energy on a very small-scale device. The machine, in creating matter, at first speeds up the electron until it has nearly the velocity of light, and its mass and weight are increased 250 times. Then it transforms the energy of the heavy electron into super. X-rays of 100,000,000 volts, which transform themselves into positive and negative electrons, which are the two particles of matter. This is the reverse process of the atomic bomb machine. In one phase of the operation it also changes matter into energy, but the. result is not an uncontrolled, explosive blast, but a narrow penetrating beam of super-radiation, whose properties are still being explored. It is found that the beam can destroy the uranium atom, which is the active substance .in the atom bomb. It transforms itself into electrons, creates artificial cosmic ray 6, and transmits the elements through artificial radio activity. The company’s scientists point out that the device is by no stretch of imagination a counter to the atomic bomb. The machine’s beam is extremely powerful at close range, but .its intensity decreases rapidly with increasing distance. The machine also weighs 300 tons without auxiliary equipment, and is therefore not portable and not easily directable.