[HN Gopher] The legacy of Liverpool's forgotten synchrocyclotron
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       The legacy of Liverpool's forgotten synchrocyclotron
        
       Author : sxcurry
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2024-07-03 16:03 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (physicsworld.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (physicsworld.com)
        
       | slashdave wrote:
       | There is a mistake in this article, which is honestly a bit
       | shocking. CPT symmetry is still known to be conserved. The
       | discovery at the time was the violation of CP symmetry.
        
         | bluish29 wrote:
         | Whilt you are correct that CPT violation is not supported by
         | experiments (yet), the article was mentioning explicity that
         | this was a competition to confirm C violation.
         | 
         | Hint: I did not downvote you
        
       | Pixelbrick wrote:
       | As a Scouser with an interest in physics I'm ashamed to have
       | known nothing about this :(
        
       | bell-cot wrote:
       | > "The country was still recovering from the war, so it was
       | amazing that the government had prioritized building a particle
       | accelerator in 1947 and 1948," Houlden adds, pointing out an
       | image of the Liverpool skyline at the time of the accelerator's
       | construction in 1951 that shows cranes in the city still
       | repairing damage from German bombing.
       | 
       | IIR, close US/UK cooperation on nuclear research ended when WWII
       | did, and the UK found itself recast as a junior bottle-washer.
       | There likely was a whole lot of national pride behind that
       | budgetary decision.
       | 
       | Edit - here's the history:
       | 
       | https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/the-early-years-of-britains-...
        
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