Radiation

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The earliest understanding of ionizing radiation was the work done by Marie and Pierre Curie around the beginning of the 20th century. It includes alpha, beta, gamma, and baryonic particles; as well as the study of high-energy electromagnetic waves such as X-rays and gamma radiation. Many other unique and exotic forms of high-energy emissions have been identified over the last century.

The Curies coined the term 'radioactivity' to represent the process of creating particle emissions through electromagnetic stimulation or nuclear decay. The experimental work of Röntgen and Villard allowed the Curies to posit the existence of energy particles that were more than mean phosphorescence. Radiation became a term applied to any high-energy wave of particle.

The Curies identified many different radioactive particles, which were improperly sorted into the category of 'ionizing radiation'. They identified the Gamma Rays first observed by experimental physicists as being distinct from gamma photons. Much later they identified Ionic Radiation as separate from X-ray energy bursts and were able to produce miniscule amounts of particles using the same technology behind X-ray tomography. The Curies predicted the existence of Zeta Radiation but were never able to produce it conclusively in a laboratory environment.

Marie and Pierre Curie were peers and close associates of Nikolai Tesla. It was due to their research into energetic particles that he was able to develop a process for manufacturing Zero-Point Energy constructs, moving humanity back into the cosmic awareness for the first time in fifteen millennia.