Nobel prize winner Robert Jungk has been writing in his book „the huge machine“
in 1965
ten million fotos worldwide
were produced from particles in bubble chambers such as CERN. It was intended to take 40 million fotos on a global scale till 1975.
The accelarator
produced intense
radioactivity according to nobel prize winner
Jungk and for this reason had to be buried beneath earth.…mehrNobel prize winner Robert Jungk has been writing in his book „the huge machine“
in 1965
ten million fotos worldwide
were produced from particles in bubble chambers such as CERN. It was intended to take 40 million fotos on a global scale till 1975.
The accelarator
produced intense radioactivity according to nobel prize winner
Jungk and for this reason had to be buried beneath earth.
Apart from the accelarator typcial technology for nuclear physics were used such as
van de Graaf and scintillation sparking.
No wonder
close cooperation is described with the centers of developing the atomic bomb such as Brookhaven
and Oak Ridge and their offspring such as the Subcommittee on Research, Development and Radiation of the joint committee on Atomic energy.
The author is reminding of those times when non visible rays going through brick walls –
were unbelievable (and still are even in these very days and even for people calling themselves „academics“…).
28 billion electro volt were required for Cern,
run by people who developed radar
during World war 2
or worked for the Telecommunications research lab of Royal Airforce.
Despite working on highly sensitive technology
Robert Jungk writes that during the hey days of Cold war
Cern scientists cooperated with the GDR
(Zeuthen eg), China and even
Moscow,
with Westerners developing for Moscow the seperation of radio frequency which is military relevant today.
Furthermore Jungk describes how, in times when German citizens were glad to have something to eat for the first time, Cern employees were flying with planes like other people use the tram.
