Word: cosmos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...intuition are supremely necessary. What sets Dr. Einstein apart is the quality of his intuition. There have been abler mathematicians than he. But from a very few observations-the constancy of light's speed in space and the equivalence of gravitational mass and inertia-he divined how the cosmos was made. He did not, like Newton, invent mathematics to describe it but borrowed the mathematics of Riemann, Fitzgerald, Lorentz and Minkowski...
...light from heavy stars, the bending of starlight around the sun, the slowed motion of solar atoms, the expanding universe. Albert Einstein, however, has refrained from putting up any "No Trespassing" signs around his mathematical edifice. He has done some mending himself, particularly on the shape of the cosmos, and he is glad to have other mathematicians drop in for a little tinkering. Modern relativity theory in fact owes a great deal to the carpentry of Weyl, Milne, Lemaitre, Born, Eddington, Tolman and others. But the good professor keeps a sharp eye on the craftsmanship of his colleagues...
...years away. It was marked now not as a blob, but as an island universe containing a billion or more stars. Finally, at Harvard, the diameter of this star-galaxy was measured at some 10,000 light years, which unveiled it at last as a crown prince of the cosmos, third largest among known spiral nebulae, inferior only to long, loose Messier 33 and the Great Nebula in Andromeda. Because of its nearness Dr. Shapley put it in the local supergalaxy which includes the Milky Way, Messier 33, the Andromeda nebula, the Large and Small Clouds of Magellan...
...atmosphere near the ground. Göckel of Switzerland, Hess of Vienna and Kolhorster of Potsdam made balloon flights up to five miles, found the radiation seven times stronger than at the earth's surface. Thus the rays were seen to be coming in from the cosmos beyond Earth's blanket of air. Calculation revealed them as more penetrating than the gamma rays which emerge from radium at 3,000,000 electron-volts. Stopped by the War, the cosmic ray hunt started with fresh impetus after Peace. In the U. S., brilliant, imaginative Robert Andrews Millikan of California...
...unique, apart and unreal than that of Lewis Carroll or P. G. Wodehouse. For one thing, it has a language of its own, in which a prison is a college, a horse is a beetle, an I. O. U. a marker, a child a punk. And in the lawless cosmos of this oldtime Hearst sportswriter, fictionist and cinema scenarist, criminals are regarded as diverting eccentrics; slaughter, a mere irrelevancy and the underworld, a sort of jocular never-never land. With Howard Lindsay, Depression's most prosperous collaborator (She Loves Me Not, Anything Goes), Writer Runyon has in A Slight...