Word: cosmos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...raising the baby on candy, from denunciations of automobiles and airplanes to pompous credos favoring Democracy. Typical of his talent is his alibi for hanging around his Kansas City landlady's daughter: "When a man denies himself all feminine companionship," reflects Homer, "he is likely to warp his cosmos...
Unity? The Quantum Theory is incapable of dealing with the large-scale cosmos. Relativity can treat individual particles only as "singularities" (i.e., anomalies) in the space-time field-a far feebler picture than that provided by Quantum Theory. Many years ago Einstein said he would devote the rest of his life to the research for a Unified Field Theory which would comprehend all natural phenomena. He knows that such a fantastically ambitious goal will never be reached by a straight frontal attack. He has been probing around it, looking for avenues of approach, circuitously groping toward unity. Nearly a decade...
Universe? At present, Einstein does not know whether the universe is finite or infinite. The Relativistic picture of the cosmos is a four-dimensional sphere-or, more exactly, a "hypersphere," since an ordinary sphere can have only three dimensions. The hypersphere is curved, so it must close back on itself and therefore be finite-but only if the curvature is positive. It may be negative, that is, somewhat less curved than a straight line. Negative curvature, which in mathematics simply involves a minus sign, cannot of course be visualized; but if such is the shape of the hypersphere, the universe...
Washington--Luncheon at the Cosmos Club Assembly Hall, Fifteenth Street and Madison Place, N. W., December 28 at 1:15 o'clock. Secretary, John H. Pratt '30, 905 American Security Bldg., Washington...
Colchicine. The major plant hormones already known are Auxins A and B and heteroauxin (TIME, Oct.11). Dr. Albert Francis Blakeslee, distinguished geneticist of the Carnegie Institution, reported discovery of a new plant hormone which he calls colchicine. It increases the growth rate of tobacco, phlox, onions, pumpkins, cosmos, radishes, portulaca, digitalis, jimson weed. The growth acceleration seems to be related to a doubling of certain segments of the chromosomes, heredity carriers in the germplasm. Colchicine also renders hybrid plants-which are normally sterile-fertile. Dr. Blakeslee pointed out that this action is as important in plant science as it would...