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The sound of trust

13 Apr 2017 Robert P Crease
Taken from the April 2017 issue of Physics World

Synchrotrons can be used to study delicate historical artefacts, but what if it were your prized possession in the beamline? Robert P Crease finds out

Scientists studied this 250-year-old violin in an X-ray beamline at Italy’s Elettra synchrotron. (

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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