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Thomson’s first idea for how the atom combined positive and negative electrical charge – known as the plum pudding model – was that it consisted of a positively charged lump of mass studded through with the negatively charged electrons. Experiments using a kind of particle accelerator would later prove this model wrong – but here the accelerator was not man made.
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Jayakumar, R. (2012). Nature’s Own Accelerator. In: Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22064-7_3
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