Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rediscovered the intellectual respectability of Christianity. This was certainly no easy job. After reading hundreds of philosophers and writers, Tillich still had to wrestle with a number of metaphysical titans--among them, Being, Non-Being, Being-Itself, The Demoniac, and the Eternal Kaires. In the end, these cosmic structures, along with his analysis of what man and history really are, come together "within a system that comprise the whole of man's interpretation of himself and the meaning of his life, which I undertook to develop in my Systematic Theology." A phenomenal accomplishment...
...mentally responsible for his crime? Pierson had shot his father and mother one April night in 1935 and, after briefly protesting his innocence, he admitted the murders and his motive. His parents, he said, stood in the way of his plan to save mankind by means of a "cosmic-ray microscope" of his own conception. He showed no contrition...
...there are newer and better detection systems, but neutrinos are still fantastically hard to catch. Dr. Reines, who landed the first ones, is in charge of the South African work. The site was chosen because a deep mine was needed to screen out cosmic rays, which would interfere with the experiment. India has such a mine, but the Indians wanted to boss the experiment themselves. Reines turned to South Africa where the University of the Witwatersrand offered him an unusual laboratory: a gold mine near Johannesburg shielded by 10,492 ft. of solid rock...
...this snug foxhole, Reines will assemble a vast neutrino trap, designed at Cleveland's Case Institute. Even the most powerful cosmic rays do not penetrate to the depth of the gold mine, but the entire universe is believed to be swarming with neutrinos that will be deterred not at all by two miles of rock. Some of them are believed to carry unusual amounts of energy, and these fat neutrinos should be easier to detect than leaner ones...
...Another part will have several hundred square yards of scintillation counters to watch for mu-mesons generated by neutrinos that hit particles in the rock surrounding the mine. On the earth's surface these neutrino-induced mu-mesons are almost impossible to identify because of confusion caused by cosmic rays...