Friday, December 2, 2005

[1942 - Atomic Age begins under stands of University of Chicago Stagg Field]

Critical Mass

In 1942 the critical mass phenomenon was demonstrated by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, who achieved the first sustained atomic chain reaction in a tent on a squash court under the bleachers of Stagg field at the University of Chicago. It is but a small step to understand how this physical concept applies in other disciplines and human endeavors, but it surely does.

William's Whimsical Words:

When you look for it, you see it at work everywhere.

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