material. Beta particle Buffer-gas trap List of particles Positronium Positronic brain "2022 CODATA Value: electron mass". The NIST Reference on Constants...
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are ingrained in the positronic brains of nearly all of his robots. Asimov remained vague about the technical details of positronic brains except to assert...
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Publications."The Positronic Man". ISFD. The Positronic Man title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database The Positronic Man at Open Library...
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there. Positronic also has manufacturing plants in France and Singapore. Sales offices are located worldwide in major metropolitan areas. Positronic was...
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Positron, a software development platform by Posit PBC Positron emission, the radioactive decay Positronic brain, the fictional device conceived by Isaac Asimov...
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neutron while releasing a positron and an electron neutrino (νe). Positron emission is mediated by the weak force. The positron is a type of beta particle...
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Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional imaging technique that uses radioactive substances known as radiotracers to visualize and measure changes...
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of positronic robotics and space exploration. The unique feature of Asimov's robots is the Three Laws of Robotics, hardwired in a robot's positronic brain...
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Electron–positron annihilation occurs when an electron ( e− ) and a positron ( e+ , the electron's antiparticle) collide. At low energies, the result...
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Positron Corporation is an American nuclear medicine healthcare company specializing in cardiac Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging. Positron is...
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"Someday" there are non-positronic computers which tell stories and do not obey the Three Laws. In "Sally" there are positronic brain cars who can damage...
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Collider (redirect from Electron-positron collider)
injection accelerator that achieves a much lower flux. The first electron-positron colliders were built in late 1950s-early 1960s in Italy, at the Istituto...
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Pair production (redirect from Electron-positron pair production)
positron, a muon and an antimuon, or a proton and an antiproton. Pair production often refers specifically to a photon creating an electron–positron pair...
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Antimatter (section Positrons)
component of widely available applications related to beta decay, such as positron emission tomography, radiation therapy, and industrial imaging. In theory...
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and Other Stories (1976). The story formed the basis of the novel The Positronic Man (1992), co-written with Robert Silverberg, and the 1999 film Bicentennial...
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Positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS) or sometimes specifically referred to as positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) is a non-destructive...
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The Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) was one of the largest particle accelerators ever constructed. It was built at CERN, a multi-national centre...
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"Positronic Collective (Mixed by Jaytech) from Positronic Digital on Beatport". www.beatport.com. Retrieved 3 November 2017. "Jaytech - Positronic Collective"...
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Robot Dreams, Robot Visions, and Gold) and five novels (including The Positronic Man, The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and The Robots of Dawn). Robots...
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PET-CT (redirect from Positron emission tomography - computed tomography)
Positron emission tomography–computed tomography (better known as PET-CT or PET/CT) is a nuclear medicine technique which combines, in a single gantry...
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engineer, and an entrepreneur. He was the founder and former president of Positronic, a manufacturing company based in Springfield, Missouri. Gentry was born...
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Positron Records is an independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois. The label was founded in 1998 by Chris Randall, frontman of the industrial...
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Beta decay (section Helicity (polarization) of neutrinos, electrons and positrons emitted in beta decay)
which an atomic nucleus emits a beta particle (fast energetic electron or positron), transforming into an isobar of that nuclide. For example, beta decay...
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fitted with positronic brains are apparently able to harm and kill humans in disregard of the First Law. However, aside from the positronic brain concept...
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real difference between the two of them "was some programming" (Lore's positronic net differed from Data's: it had a Type-"L" phase discriminator compared...
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to the source of positronic energy it originally came from. Some media portrays the source of these sparks as a pool of positronic energy located on...
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Generation featured androids with "positronic brains" and the first-season episode "Datalore" called the positronic brain "Asimov's dream". Asimov was...
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Bhabha scattering (redirect from Electron-positron scattering)
In quantum electrodynamics, Bhabha scattering is the electron-positron scattering process: e + e − → e + e − {\displaystyle e^{+}e^{-}\rightarrow e^{+}e^{-}}...
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(1982). In 2057, the only cars allowed on the road are those that contain positronic brains; these are autonomous cars and do not require a human driver. Fifty-one...
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witness is a malfunctioning house robot that has suffered damage to its positronic brain because it allowed harm to be done to a human, in violation of the...
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