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Nevertheless, some theoretical chinks remain. According to "Parker's Limit," a theory developed by University of Chicago Astrophysicist Eugene Parker, monopoles would draw energy from nearby magnetic fields as they traveled through the galaxy. Cabrera's one event in only 185 days is a very high rate of detection. It suggests that there are many more monopoles zipping around than our galaxy's magnetic field can properly support...
...English astrophysicist Steven Hawking, who spent the last two weeks at Harvard lecturing and meeting with researchers, has devoted most of his life to studying these gashes in the fabric of space and time. I've always wanted to understand why the world is what it is and how it works," says Hawking, now a successor to Sir Isaac Newton as Lucastan Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Since, according to Hawking, "we already know completely the laws that govern normal matter," his goal is to extend such knowledge to extreme conditions. Nothing is more extreme than a black hole...
...mother-in-law to die in a state hospital and mulling over the retreat of "personal humanity" before "the worldwide process of consolidation." The woman was an eminent psychiatrist and former Minister of Health whose humanism was incompatible with the Communist regime. Corde's wife Minna is an astrophysicist who defected to the U.S. and must now beg a vindictive bureaucracy for permission to see her failing mother...
Harvey D. Tananbaum, who assisted with the Einstein satellite project, will replace Giacconi when the celebrated astrophysicist begins his new job in September, Cornell said...
...point of this letter to caution the Astronomy department against making these two grave errors. Besides being an eminent astrophysicist, researcher, and author, Chaisson is one of the superb lecturers at the University. His great abilities as an educator should be considered and landed. Kenneth Bookstar...