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Well, this will conclude the series. I appreciate all of the comments, and have tried to adapt this series to respond to them, including more links and pictures. Some of them are interesting, and some just help make the point. Unfortunately I was unable to embed any this time for [...]
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he end of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th were heady times in physics. Within a month of Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen’s publication of the discovery of X-rays, Henri Becquerel announced the discovery of natural radiation from uranium ore. Things were beginning to move quickly.
X-rays are generally agreed [...]
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