Meaning of varitron | Babel Free

Definitions

An alleged subatomic particle with variable mass that Armenian physicists claimed to have discovered in the 1940s, but which was subsequently debunked.

Examples

“The mass of a varitron varies from 100 to 25,000 electron masses.”

“The discovery of the varitron brought the brothers Alikhanov not only immediate fame, but considerable fortune as well in the form⟳ of a Stalin Prize First Class accompanied by 200,000 rubles.”

“This high official exercised "self-criticism" in his own⟳ name⟳ and that of Soviet science for this "gross mistake⟳”, and denounced all those who tried to protect⟳ the varitron story against experimental evidence.”

“These first flickering stars were perhaps giving birth in his mind⟳ to the thoughts of proton explosions, of developmental phases and cycles, of super-dense matter⟳, of cosmic showers and storms of varitrons, of different theories of cosmogony, including his own⟳, of instruments for recording invisible streams of stellar energy...”

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