Also lurking on the roof is a mysterious someone looking for revenge on Spider-Man. Spidey's spider-sense is being very selective today, not triggering until the mystery villain actually fires the gun, making it too late to save Mosquito's pigeon.
It seems odd to me that mobsters would want anything to do with the Torch. He doesn't really bother with street level crime very much, and doing anything to him would just risk bringing the rest of the Fantastic Four down on their heads, and who would want that?
They start to wrap things up. But mobsters are one thing, but the Sandman ("Hey everybody, i'm wearing my old costume! Just thought that was worth mentioning right now!") and a new Crime Master are something else.
This is really slumming it for the Sandman. I know he worked with the Enforcers before, and they need some help since the Ox is gone, but he's really moved up to fighting the Hulk and being in the Frightful Four and such. He shouldn't feel obligated to come back to these guys.
The team includes three guys: leader Lin Sun, Abe Brown, and Bob Diamond, and there's also Lotus Shinchuko who i guess doesn't get counted as a Son (i suppose because she doesn't have a piece of the tiger amulet and not just because she's a girl) even though she seems to be able to hold her own with the martial arts.
The bad guys then attack the Sons of the Tiger's dojo (since they practice Kung Fu, i should actually call it a kwoon, but you won't know what that is), but luckily Spidey resurfaces to help after going back to console Mosquito.
The new Big Man and Crime Master turn out to be the son and daughter of the originals. They've both decided to restore their parents legacy by seeking revenge on Spider-Man, but they've also gotten into a gang war with each other and in the end the daughter dies. The irony is supposed to be that they were in love with each other, but they each knew that they were the children of the two old criminals, so how they didn't put two and two together is beyond me.
In the lettercols, there's a serious debate about doing Marvel Team-Up issues retroactively set in the 1960s. That would have been a bad idea, in my opinion. It would have very likely stepped on the toes of some actual first meetings between various heroes; and i really like the idea that in the beginning characters mostly operated independently of each other except for the events that we obviously already know about.
"Spidey's spider-sense is being very selective today, not triggering until the mystery villain actually fires the gun, making it too late to save Mosquito's pigeon."
Wait until you get to Amazing Spider-Man 340-341. The Chameleon disguises himself as a scientist, tricks Peter into walking into a trap and the Spider-Sense doesn't go off until he actually turns on the trap.
Ive said this before, but I feel his spider-sense should only work when he (or those near him) is being phsyically attacked. It shouldn't buzz in the mere presence of a villain. If it buzzes when a bad guy is around, that means his spider-sense is capable of reading minds and casting moral judgments upon people. Spider-sense should not make him psychic.
That said, the average depiction seems to involve something similar to a dog sniffing indicators of emotional state from people. But it goes a bit beyond that, if we are to understand that the spider-sense is also a factor in his uncanny ability to avoid gunfire (which the first Punisher appearance implies to be the case).
On the other hand, it is sometimes implied that the Spider-Sense is actually precognitive to some extent. In the second Spider-Man meets Superman story (the one published by Marvel and drawn by John Buscema) the spider-sense tells him which way to turn a lever in order to avoid an explosion.
The weirdest example has to be Web of Spider-Man 62, where the Molten Man shows up to ask Liz for a loan so he can go straight, Peter assumes it's extortion and his Spider-Sense goes off. Why? If the Molten Man wasn't planning on harming anyone, then the Spider-Sense shouldn't go off no matter what Peter believed.
Excluding the Spider-Sense problem, the opening scene of #39 makes no sense. The rooftop silhouette mostly resembles the Crime-Master, except for a last panel that resembles the Big Man. When we actually do see the Big Man, he remarks on the shooting "that Spider-Man thinks tried to kill him", except that the silhouette's thought balloons made clear that he was indeed trying to kill him. This only makes sense if the Crime-Master was there first, then scrammed when Mosquito showed up, and then got instantly replaced by the Big Man. Then, Mantlo never explains how either of them vanish from the rooftop!
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The observation of neutrino flavour oscillations proves that neutrinos are massive particles, establishing that the weak neutrino flavour eigenstates are a superposition of three neutrino mass eigenstates, in contradiction to the standard model of particle physics1,2. Oscillation experiments can only investigate the differences between the squared neutrino mass eigenvalues, leaving the absolute scale of the neutrino mass an open question. Thus, the absolute scale of the neutrino mass remains one of the most sought-after quantities in nuclear and particle physics, cosmology and theories beyond the standard model that could potentially explain the origin of the neutrino rest mass3,4,5,6.
The measurement started with loading a set of three ions in the order 163Dy, 163Ho and 163Dy into traps 2, 3 and 4, respectively (Fig. 2a). The motional frequencies of the HCIs in traps 2 and 3 were measured simultaneously, starting with the ions in Position 1. Subsequently, the ions were shuttled to Position 2, which effectively swapped the ion species in traps 2 and 3 (Fig. 2a) and the measurement was repeated. The resulting data structure is shown in Fig. 2b where νc is plotted as a function of the measurement time. Alternating data points for 163Dy and 163Ho result from the swapping of the ion species in traps 2 and 3. More details of the ion preparation and the measurement sequence are given in the Methods.
In the data analysis, the frequency of 163Dy was linearly interpolated between two data points to the time at which 163Ho was measured. Ri was determined from this interpolated data point, as illustrated in Fig. 3a. This procedure was followed for the full dataset. Residual nonlinear behaviour of the cyclotron frequency drift, originating from physical effects that alter the temperature and position of magnetic materials that surround the Penning traps and change the magnetic field within the traps, was taken into account in the uncertainty of the interpolated Ri. For this, the frequency data points were interpolated back to themselves (Fig. 3b), and the sum of the residuals divided by the number of residuals was included as an additional uncertainty in the ratio. The resulting ratios \(R_i=\nu _c,i\left(\,\!^163\rmDy^38+\right)/\nu _c,i\left(\,\!^163\rmHo^38+\right)\) for the two measurement runs are shown in Fig. 2c for both traps. The ratios for the individual traps were consistent, therefore the final ratio was calculated as the weighted average and shown as a red line including the 1σ uncertainty band. For the calculation of the uncertainty of the final ratio, the inner error \(\sigma _\rmint^2\) and the outer error \(\sigma _\rmext^2\) were calculated, and the larger of the two was used as the final uncertainty32,33:
At first, only the space of the ground-state configuration was considered. The configuration space was then iteratively expanded to include single, double and triple excitations of electrons into orbitals with higher principal quantum numbers. Details of these calculations are given in the Methods. We obtained the calculated binding energy differences given in Table 1.
In the MCDHF method, the atomic state function is modelled as a superposition of configuration state functions (CSFs) with fixed angular momentum, magnetic and parity quantum numbers. The CSFs are built as Slater determinants of Dirac orbitals in the jj coupling scheme. Using the parallel GRASP2018 codes43, we expanded the space of virtual orbitals used for the construction of CSFs by single- and double-electron exchanges in a systematic manner. The convergence of the energies with respect to the maximal principal quantum number of virtual orbitals was monitored, and the spread of values resulting from different correlation models was used as a measure of the leading contribution (90%) of the theoretical uncertainties. In case of the HCI, the set of CSFs was generated with exchanges including all occupied orbitals from 1s onwards, and with virtual orbitals up to typically 10h. Virtual orbitals were optimized in a layer-by-layer fashion43,44. The effects of the Breit interaction, recoil and approximate quantum electrodynamic corrections were accounted for by the configuration interaction method using orbitals from the MCDHF procedure43. More details are given in the Methods. We obtained the theoretical binding energy differences listed in Table 1.
The resulting Q values agree within their 1σ uncertainties. Resulting from this very good agreement, systematic deviations from either the free-space cyclotron ratio measurement or from the calculation of the binding energy difference can largely be excluded. Furthermore, the influence of unknown metastable electronic states can also largely be ruled out as it is very unlikely that an electronic metastable state would have exactly the same excitation energy in all three of the measured charge states.
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