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...continued observations with a given apparatus for a very long time, what changes would we see?" asks Gold. As billions follow billions of years, the most distant galaxies slip over the edge of the universe as their light becomes too feeble to be observed. Faint nearby galaxies grow brighter as they collect more matter. As the space between them expands, new galaxies are born to glow faintly in the new space...
...writes: "The room was completely dark except for the tiny luminous spot that the pencil of light threw on the photographic paper . . . Soon the luminous point gave me the feeling of being aboard a gently and irregularly moving vessel, so I braced a pencil on a piece of the apparatus and held it close to the luminous point . . . About a quarter of an hour was required for the shock to travel, deep under the Pacific basin, to the California coast. I waited with little patience . . . At last . . . the luminous point appeared to dance wildly and irregularly. Was it only that...
Deuterium (heavy hydrogen) is present in all water to the amount of 0.02%, and it can be separated with considerable difficulty by several processes, including fractional distillation. The geothermal plant, financed jointly by Britain and New Zealand, will separate the heavy water from the steam in a special apparatus designed by the British Atomic Energy Authority. Then the steam will run conventional turbines, generating electricity for New Zealand's growing industries...
Everyone in the regime's top leadership well knew that who controlled the policy controlled their necks. It was necessary to their common survival to disperse the State Security apparatus, and to make common cause against anyone out front, i.e., Malenkov, to keep him from getting this last key symbol of power. In April 1954, after Beria's downfall, the Security Services were detached from the Ministry of the Interior and placed under a Committee for State Security. Committee Chairman Ivan Alexandrovich...
...instruments circling above the earth's atmosphere can gather information about the stars that is inaccessible to telescopes on the earth's surface. Pictures taken from a satellite will never get back to earth intact, but Bowen suggests that the plates be developed automatically, scanned by electronic apparatus and sent to earth by radio like wirephotos...