Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imagine such a field for himself but to open it up somehow to the spectator. One water color in last week's show, Bird, Ph Feeds Ur with the Snake, at first sight only a delicately smoky paper with a tangle of lines in the centre, suggested a cosmic twilight and the chaotic, prehistoric figures of monsters. In another kind of shorthand, a gouache called Winter Flowers showed a pattern of slim stems and frosty white blooms against grey darkness. Here all the spectator had to contribute was a simple association of darkness with winter...
Harvard astronomers have discovered a gigantic cluster of stars in the southern sky, which apparently belongs to no known class of cosmic systems, and which may thus reveal the existence of an entirely new group of star systems in the universe, it was reported today in the Harvard Observatory Bulletin by Harlow Shapley, director of the observatory...
...assumption that these quantities are constants is more important than the exact determination of their values. Atom-smashers, cosmic ray observers and other experimentalists might not be seriously disturbed if the constants were not constant, but wavered imperceptibly within the limits of experimental error. But such a thing would have tremendous repercussions on the vast theoretical structure of Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, indeed on the whole philosophy of physics...
...recent months Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology has been experimenting with a peculiar particle which showed up in the cosmic rays reaching earth. It appeared that this "X-particle" had a considerably higher mass than m, so Dr. Anderson, who had a natural and profound respect for the constancy of m, was quite sure it was not an electron. Jabez Curry Street of Harvard measured the X-particle's mass at 130 times m, although he said it might be subject to a 25% error either...
Some weeks ago George Eric MacDonnell Jauncey got a hunch that the X-particle was originally an ordinary electron whose mass had somehow been increased. He imagined what would happen if a high-energy cosmic ray photon struck an electron in the upper atmosphere. Most of the transferred energy would simply give the electron a high-velocity kick. But some of it might be converted into matter which the electron would absorb, increasing its mass. The increase might be any amount at all, depending on the initial energy of the cosmic ray and the variable quantity of matter produced...