Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a very powerful, very penetrating ray which reaches earth from space. Dr. Millikan recognized this ray ten years ago and called it the cosmic ray. He found that it penetrated 50 ft. of lead, 200 ft. of water. Last year Professor Auguste Piccard, cruising into the stratosphere ten miles above earth, found evidence of the same ray (TIME, June 8). Also last year Professor Arthur Holly Compton found traces of them atop the Rocky Mountains and the Alps...
...Cosmic rays exist. How they are formed and where are the great conundrums...
Size of the rays is nearly infinitesimal. But the energy with which they are propelled is tremendous. Dr. Carl Anderson of Caltech estimates, by observing how cosmic rays shattered certain atoms in his laboratory, that cosmic rays strike earth with 50,000,000 or more volts of power. The effect is analogous to a quill being driven through a plank by a tornado...
...would give water different spectral color, new physical properties, but would not affect the taste. But since its nucleus is the simplest yet found consisting of more than one particle it would be a great aid in the study of nuclei, might add to data on the cosmic ray which Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan thinks is the energy re-leased by the building up of elements in the universe...
...wide spectrum of electromagnetic waves-from the very short, very rapid cosmic rays (.000,000,000,004 cm.)* to the comparatively long, slow radio waves (2,500,000 cm.)†only a small section is perceptible to unaided human senses. That section contains light rays and heat rays, and the intermediate infra-red rays which are neither light nor heat, yet are of the nature of both. Scientists are gradually learning how to put the infra-red rays to work. Doctors use them to create artificial fevers. Practical physicists used them otherwise last week...