Word: cosmic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cosmic rays. The satellite can observe cosmic-ray particles before they hit the atmosphere, which destroys them or changes their energy...
...like Pollock's painting, or think the results no better than color decorations, one must admit the potency of his process." ¶ Art News explained that Pollock's work "sustains the abstract-size scale toward which his vision has probably always been directed. It is a 'cosmic' scale because of the multiple overlay and continuous spiral movement in conjunction with the non-figurativeness." ¶ Arts summed up: "A Pollock painting, charged with his personal mythology, remains meaningless to him for whom Pollock himself is not a tangible reality. As Indian sculpture is related to Vedic...
Since its beginning, the universe continued to expand, and stars have given off their energy, but apparently "no replenishment occurs," he explained. "The universe is running toward a condition with matter strown in cosmic ash heaps and with radiation flung to the ends of space...
...Stars. Drs. Greenstein and Fowler, backed by a group of British cosmologists, believe that the universe was formed gradually out of a cloud of plain hydrogen over billions of years. Old stars that condensed first from the cosmic cloud were made entirely of hydrogen; there was nothing else to be made of. As nuclear reactions took place inside them, they turned partly into helium by fusion processes similar to those that generate the energy of hydrogen bombs. They also cooked up middleweight elements such as carbon and oxygen...
Young Sun. Since the earth is made mostly of middleweight and heavy elements, Dr. Greenstein believes that it and the sun (as well as the other planets) were formed fairly late in cosmic history, when the cosmic gas contained elements other than hydrogen. He thinks that the solar system may be something like a billion years younger than the universe...