or “spin,” that can have only discrete values One of the most surprising discoveries made by physicists probing the inner workings of the atom was that electrons—subatomic particles that are the basic carriers of negative charge—also are little bar magnets, like those shown in Figure 10 in cha...
Viewed from today’s perspective, comics from the Silver Age (from the late 1950s to 1960s) seem suffused with an optimistic outlook and a sunny disposition that borders on the Pollyannaish. The Golden Age characters reinvented by Julius Schwartz and colleagues at DC Comics in the late fifties and...