Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guessers about the origin of life on Earth last week hearkened when a distinguished Californian announced the discovery of bacteria in meteorites. For lack of precise facts, some guessers have placed life, with meteors, sunshine, starshine and cosmic rays, as an extramundane intrusion. Professor Charles Bernard Lipman, the booming, moon-faced plant-physiologist who is dean of the University of California's graduate division, now thinks such guessers have been correct. From several sources he acquired meteorites (meteors which landed intact on Earth). These he doused, scrubbed, seared and otherwise sterilized, then pulverized in sterile mortars. The dust...
...honest Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, a fact is a fact. Last week he recognized a new one. Although it fortified the cosmic ray theory of Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, who had become Dr. Millikan's opponent in the field of cosmic ray theories (TIME, Jan. 9), Dr. Millikan at once published his new finding...
...fact: Cosmic rays are less intense above the Isthmus of Panama than above more northerly California. Latitude, Dr. Millikan now admits, has a definite effect on cosmic rays. They are strongest near the earth's magnetic poles, weakest near the magnetic equator. Dr. Compton has been proclaiming just that...
...puffs from the first explosion is the Milky Way, in which Earth is a fleck of Sun-warmed soot. Other puffs are nebulae traveling 12,000 miles a second. Cosmic rays include flashes of light (Millikan photons) from that explosion, and chips of matter (Compton electrons and/or protons; TIME, Jan. 9). They equal one-tenth the light from all the stars and weigh (Millikan calculation) 10 -34 gram per cubic centimeter.* Mount Wilson's Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble estimates the total amount of matter in space as 10 -31 gram per cubic centimeter. Cosmic radiation thus must be equal...
...Einstein, Dr. Millikan, others relaxed. Exclaimed Dr. Einstein: "The most beautiful and satisfying interpretation of the source of cosmic rays I have listened...