Word: cosmos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meteoritics at University of Denver, he is the most persistent and energetic chaser of meteorites in the land, possessor of the world's largest private meteorite collection and probably the only scientist anywhere who spends all his working time hunting, studying, writing or talking about fragments of the cosmos from outer space. Last week some 800 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science assembled in Denver for their summer meeting, and one of the sectional conferences was that of the Society for Research on Meteorites, of which Dr. Nininger is secretary. He had been waiting...
Professor Einstein has long been the No. i searcher. Roughly speaking, "non-affine" space is undistorted space. Dr. Cartan finds that some of the "vectors" with which Relativists play have a dual existence-in distorted Einstein space and in undistorted Euclidean space. These amphibian vectors may be links between cosmos and microcosmos. In Dr. Cartan's audience reporters could not find a single mathematician who could explain his method in layman's language. Dr. Cartan tried himself, conscientiously, through an interpreter. Presently all hands admitted defeat, disbanded...
...meetings will be led by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory. In one on cosmogony he will give a series of lectures on the physical universe and the relation of the earth, solar system, and galaxy to the rest of the cosmos. The other colloquium will concern hollow squares, consisting of informal discussions of various observational and theoretical investigations...
...Hollywood rivals, from Intolerance to The Crusades, but it differs from all predecessors in its class by demanding a cerebral rather than an emotional response. Its climax is reached not when two lovers are reunited but when an unmarried couple (Pearl Argyle, Kenneth Villiers) more interested in the cosmos than in each other disappear from the screen in the direction of the moon, thus causing the President of the World, Raymond Massey, to state the Wellsian moral: ''All the Universe or nothingness-which shall...
...opportunities for spectroscopic examination. Such novae throw off tremendously hot shells of gas, then subside irregularly and gradually to something like their former faintness. On the other hand some astronomers believe that supernovae, which fade rapidly, become "neutron stars"-small, dead, dense lumps of matter, forlorn wraiths of the cosmos...