Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ominous thing he had to say, Dr. Heyroth briefly described the electromagnetic spectrum and the nature of the various radiations, from the long, red end of the visible spectrum out to Hertzian or radio waves; and from the short, violet end of the visible spectrum out to the cosmic (Millikan...
...Cosmic rays are shortest and most penetrating. They are the quivers of the gestating universe and the twitchings of dying matter. It is supposed that when vagabond rhythms of space collide and entangle, a pristine atom is born and a cosmic ray darts away from the medley, that when aged protons and electrons bash each other to death, the offshoot of their antagonism is a cosmic...
GRAND HOTEL?A noteworthy play about a series of fairly cosmic happenings in a German hostelry...
...Discovery of cosmic ("Millikan") rays...
...Short, diplomatic Dr. Millikan, 1929-30 president of the Association, rocked back and forth on his toes, reasserted his belief that cosmic radiations replenish earth's energy loss, referred to his scientific opponent Sir James Hopwood: Jeans, British astronomer who believes the world is dying. "If Sir James Jeans prefers to hold one view and I another no one can say us nay. The one thing of which you may be quite sure is that neither of us knows anything about it." Dr. Millikan reviewed 100 years of scientific thought and labor, named what he esteemed as ten most...