Re: 'together vs. to gather'

Staving Doug Dee:

>Other English verbs that have been said to require subjects or objects that
>are plural (in some perhaps ill-defined semantic sense) are "scatter" and
>"massacre."  You could scatter twenty golf balls around your living roon,
>but you
>could hardly scatter one golf ball (or even two).
Physicists, at least, frequently use "scatter" with singular patients.

When a relativistic electron is scattered at large angles by a heavy
nucleus its trajectory is dependant on its spin polarisation, due to the
magnetic interaction that takes place.

Pete