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The Three Families of Matter |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: Richard L. Lewis |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 3,450 Words, 19,599 Characters |
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Most children eventually get an overwhelming urge to pull something apart and find out what it's made of and how it operates. While this impulse might fades in some, in a certain type of scientist it matures in the relentless smashing of the atom into smaller and smaller components with the same questions in mid: What's inside? How does it work?
The closing months of the last decade established yet another milestone in this quest with an announcement at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California on October 12, upstaging the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva, which planned to go public with the same findings on October 13.
According to the historic pronouncement, scientists had firmly established that there are only three fundamental families...
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...rful machines, such as the Super conducting Super Collider planned for Texas, to dig down even deeper. No one can tell if all this will one day lead to a technological leap that will transform our lives in the way that electricity and the computer have. For the scientist, however, there is tremendous satisfaction in cracking it all open and finding out just what's inside and how it works. vbcrlf
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