Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which may reach all the way to the sun and could well thwart mortal designs on outer space. Within minutes of launch, Explorer IV was wheeling with the other moons, 170 miles up at the lowest, 1,400 miles up at the highest, sending back vital intelligence on this cosmic barrier...
...double task firmly impressed on its electronic senses. It must report on the belt of radiation, probably particles from the sun, that was found by Explorer III about 600 miles above the earth's surface. And it must tell U.S. scientists more than they yet know about cosmic rays...
Kohman rejects both these theories. He analyzed tektites and found that they contain considerable amounts of radioactive isotopes (beryllium 10 and aluminum 26) that are formed by cosmic rays in space. This rules out the moon, he says. If tektites were splashed out of lunar meteor craters, they would have to come from at least a small distance below the moon's surface, where they would be sheltered from rays...
...northerly orbit permits Explorer IV to report more fully on cosmic rays, which vary in intensity from the poles to the equator. But the satellite got less launching throw (205 m.p.h. less than Explorer III) from the west-to-east turning of the earth...
...novelist's devices considered important today--stream of consciousness, rendition, authority, and "psychological mechanism." He used the older tools of clear writing, myth, and allegory. He was a pessimist not quite prepared to trust reality, doubtful of "justice" in the universe, and inclined to believe that the discovery of cosmic chaos was not a triumph for man. It only sustained the defeat. But Cabell didn't let things go at anticipating Sartre and the Left Bank anti-ontologists. He did believe in wit and beauty, and symbolistic meaning. Images in Jurgen arise from both his imagination and his erudition...