Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Compton and their elder son Arthur Alan, he will start on a 20,000-mi. tour of Pacific mountain tops. To the tops of mountains in Panama, Peru, New Zealand, Hawaii and Alaska he will lug a 250-lb. machine to study the characteristics of the puzzling cosmic rays which Dr. Millikan has made his own. The study will supplement similar studies which Dr. Compton made in the Rocky Mountains last summer, in the Alps last October...
...several feet of lead. They apparently weigh 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to the ounce. It is only by the finest of discernment that they can be distinguished from unentangled quanta of energy. Streams of them may be what Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan calls cosmic rays. But Dr. Chadwick doubts that. Neutrons may be, because they have opposite poles, the long sought units of magnetism. Whatever they are, neutrons are fine things for physicists to play with and to guess about. They are, declared Lord Rutherford last week, the greatest discovery since the artificial disintegration...
...theory has yet been proposed which adequately explains the penetrating radiations known as cosmic rays," he went on to say "but if the existence of the neutron can be proved, a very plausible solution might be developed...
...thinks he may be able to throw some light on what happens to .0308 of hydrogen's atomic weight (1.0077) when four atoms of it combine to form one atom of helium (atomic weight: 4). It is that lost energy which Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan thinks is converted into cosmic rays which splatter about the earth and seep into teacups...
...barn might be determined by throwing a million baseballs at it and studying the number of balls which hit it and the angles at which they bounce off. That is the way physicists have determined the structure of the atom. Pellets have been radium particles, X-rays and, lately, cosmic rays. Inability to control available ammunition has been the great handicap...