Word: cosmologists
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What would happen to the solar system if half of the universe disappeared? From Newton to Einstein, most experts have agreed that nothing much would happen except that the sky would have fewer stars. But now British Cosmologist Fred Hoyle says that the sun would shine 100 times brighter and burn the earth to a crisp...
...Argument. Professor Philip Morrison of Cornell thinks the X rays may be generated when starlight picks up energy from high-speed electrons far out in space. Professor Minoru Oda of M.I.T. figures that the X rays come from a magnetic field surrounding the edges of the galactic nucleus. British Cosmologist Fred Hoyle suspects that they may be connected with the creation of new matter in the vast emptiness between the galaxies...
Though many a cosmologist was bothered by the bizarre idea of a swiftly expanding universe, no one yet has been able to prove it wrong. But last week in the British journal Nature, Physicist Alastair Ward of Glasgow's Royal College of Science and Technology suggested a possible way to squelch the big explosion and bring the universe back into a steady state of vast but stable dimensions. Colliding light beams may lose some of their energy, says Ward, as photons (particles of light) carom off other photons. The loss of energy might cause a lengthening of wave length...