Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Paris Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan reiterated in a paper read before the International Electrical Congress his belief that cosmic rays are the "birth cries" of atoms newly born in the cold spaces between the stars. His paper was written before he heard of a report published last week in the Physical Review by his fellow Nobel Prizewinner, Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, now in Peru. Old is the quarrel between Dr. Millikan and Sir James Hopwood Jeans, who calls cosmic rays the "death wails" of matter on the stars. Dr. Millikan's friend Dr. Compton last week...
What is known is that cosmic rays exist. They are infinitesimal, strike Earth with over 50,000,000 volts of power. What is not known is where they come from and why. Jeans locates their source on the stars, Millikan between the stars. They may be photons, the ultimate unit of light radiations. Photons could not be deflected by Earth's magnetic field. Or cosmic rays may be electrons, electrically charged matter which would be deflected by Earth's magnetic field. Since Dr. Millikan's researches showed that cosmic rays hit the Earth with the same force...
...been known on earth, and when Mr. Hoover has his speech called to his attention by one of his secretaries he will feel either that the speech is nonsense or that the office of President of the United States is a paltry thing for one who has such cosmic genius...
...electricity unless ionized, it was found that a hitherto unknown agency accomplished that ionization with increasing intensity as the altitude above sea level was increased. It was concluded, therefore, that the electrifying agency originated outside the Earth; it was accordingly determined to ascertain the nature of the so called cosmic rays, and one of the first essentials to be determined in their study is their origin...
...present research is concerned with verifying the findings of other scientists in Germany and the United States that cosmic rays approach the Earth from all directions and in practically equal intensity. If the rays make themselves more apparent in one part of the globe than in another, their direction will be ascertained, and much light will be thrown upon the question of whether or not the rays emanate from particular stars or simply from the infinite depths of space...