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addition the energy content is altered, increased, 

 and the electromagnetic values and electromechanical 

 effects are multiplied. Within a fraction of a second 

 a vast number of such impacts and additions might 

 occur. Not only ions will be made to give up loosely 

 bound negative electrons, and the hydrogen ion 

 positive electrons, but atoms will be entered. 



When the new unit enters an atom, one of several 

 things may happen: 



1. It may pass straight through the atom, doing 

 no harm to the atom and suffering no harm. This 

 is an unlikely happening; since as mentioned before, 

 and as Millikan and Bragg have pointed out with 

 application to the planetary atom, a body shooting 

 through our solar system at great speed might do 

 no harm to the system, but going through it at low 

 speed would have disastrous results. The velocity 

 of the new unit hardly would have the critical value 

 that would carry it through the atom without injury 

 to the atom. Besides, the electromagnetic properties 

 of the new unit are peculiar and very strong. 



2. It may pass through the atom tearing away and 

 carrying along one or more negative electrons. 



3. It may enter the atom, tear away an electron and 

 drag along the atom itself. The atom thus carried 

 along would capture an electron as opportunity 

 permitted and complete itself once more. Also the 



