Dec 20, 2009
Jack Hamilton, a bright young engineer; Marsha, his wife; and Charley McFeyffe, their friend, go to witness the testing of a new attachment on the Bevatron, a powerful new atom smasher on which Hamilton has been working. An uncontrolled proton beam slices away the viewing platform, hurling the three of them, their guide, and four tourists through the beam to the floor of the chamber sixty feet below. All are injured and hospitalized, and they recover at different rates.
Jack, Marsha, and Joan Reiss, one of the tourists, are the first to be released. They go to...
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