Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corporation backed researches on mayflies, vitamins, cosmic rays, American Indian languages, factors in the failure and success of college teachers. It published a translation of Algazel's Metaphysics, a treatise on Federal Education in Alaska...
Universe. Belgium's Abbe Georges Lemaitre, astronomer and relativist, once thought of the universe as cosmic shrapnel -fragments still receding violently from the explosion billions of years ago of a single primordial atom. In Pasadena last winter he explained to a respectful listener named Albert Einstein how this picture accounted for cosmic rays (TIME, Jan. 23). One dilemma his picture did not resolve. The observed rate of recession of the farthest visible parts was so fast (12,000 to 15,000 mi. per sec.) that it made the universe seem unreasonably young. Last week, backed by intricate mathematics...
...suds, explained the Belgian scientist, are in disequilibrium, some whipped by a cosmic repulsive force (expressed by the constant lambda), some clutched at by the attractive force which earthlings know as gravity. While some bubbles swell and others contract, still others, unstably balanced between the two forces, are in a state of stagnation. Within some regions where expansion is the rule, there are collapsing systems flying headlong away from one another. Also, in slowly collapsing regions are to be found a number of rapidly collapsing systems. Such a system is the Milky Way, the galaxy to which Earth belongs...
...fascination to them is "because it provides the contemplative imagination with objects of great esthetic charm." To take Science as a religion is a mistaken act of faith from which agnostics have still to recover. Science has already given up the idea that its mathematics can ever be a cosmic Esperanto. Men-in-the-street, always up on news of the day but behindhand on news of the century, still think in terms of an outmoded scientific materialism, unaware that in the last 40 years there has been the greatest scientific revolution since Copernicus. In this new dispensation "matter began...
...calculations from the Einstein formula and measurements of the energies of cosmic rays, Caltech's Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan reached the disputed conclusion that interstellar energy is constantly accumulating in the form of the familiar elements...