Cosmology Old and New

Author(s): G R Jain
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith

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COSMOLOGY: OLD AND NEW
interior of the nucleus. What happens after the bombardment is shown in Figure 6 below.
Nucleus of Oxygen atom formed by bombardment.
Fig. 6 In the words of Prof. Infeld “The catastrophe produced by a collision between the nucleus of the atom and the bombarding alpha particle expels a proton from the nucleus of the nitrogen atom. One asks, therefore, what further happens to the bullet which has caused the catastrophe? What becomes of the alpha particle after the collision? To this question, too, experiment gave its answer a few years ago. The remains embedded in the nucleus at which it was projected."
re can be no better example of the combinational (T ) character of pudgala dravia. The comparison of Figures 5 and 6 clearly shows how the foreign alpha particle has filled an empty place and produced an atom of oxygen from an atom of nitrogen. Thus the definition of pudgala viz., trufa, Tafa star TGIFT: establishes itself fully. However we shall give two more illustrated examples before closing the subject.
Fig. 7 (see next page) shows the bombardment of the nucleus of lithium atom with a proton bullet. The figure clearly shows that if a proton is added to the nucleus, another alpha particle will be completed, for there are one proton and two neutrons in the free state, and the addition of one more proton will make two