Most people interpret radiation as a bad thing—but it isn’t always. In fact, radiation is a very normal phenomenon. For now, let’s just say that radiation is when an object produces energy. When a ...

The nuclei of certain atoms are stable and under ordinary circumstances, stable nuclei do not undergo change. The nuclei of other atoms are unstable. These nuclei undergo change spontaneously, that is ...

Atoms are the building blocks of matter. Everything around us — from air and water, to rocks, plants and animals — as well as everything within our bodies, is made up of atoms. They are very small, ...

PROF G. MIE, in a paper in the Annalen der Physik for January, continues the development of a theory of the radiation process, which he outlined in the same journal in 1921. On the Rutherford-Bohr ...

IN the attempts to interpret theoretically the interaction between radiation and matter, two apparently contradictory aspects of the mechanism have been disclosed. On one hand, interference and ...