The Atom

A good discussion of the pros and cons of using the atomic bomb to end World War II - AP Physics Period 2 The Atom         In the spring of 1897 J.J. Thomson demonstrated that the beam of glowing matter in a cathode-ray tube was not made of light waves, as 'the almost unanimous opinion of German physicists' held. Rather, cathode rays were negatively charged particles boiling off the negative cathode and attracted to the positive anode. …

…universe and everything in it is rigidly governed by mechanistic cause and effect. That was Haeckelism carried to a cold extreme. It stifled Neils Bohr as a biological Haeckelism and stifled Christian Bohr and as a similar authoritarianism in philosophy and in bourgeois Christianty had stifled Soren Kierkegaard. Bibliography Rodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Ssimon and Schuster,         1986. 'Nuclear Wapon.' The Enclopedia Britannica. Encylopedia Britannica In. Chicago         V8; 1991, p 820-821.