Word: cosmos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the split, the cosmon decayed into the known universe. "The anti-cosmon may or may not have decayed by now, since spontaneous decay is a process governed by a statistical law," says Goldhaber. "If it did decay (forming an 'anti-cosmos'), any anti-nucleons that are shot out with sufficient velocity to reach our cosmos will annihilate some part of it, possibly establishing a deviation from spherical symmetry in the distribution of matter in our cosmos...
...mustache attuned to the wild Spanish rhythms), a fraudulent art theorist? With a big wink Escudero spoke seriously: "Since nobody knows what is true, Salvador's theory that the rhinoceros horn begins all and the cauliflower ends all (TIME, Dec. 26) may be the profoundest truth of the cosmos...
...proof that this theory is not mere cosmos-dreaming, Dr. Greenstein told about a group of red giant stars that contain very heavy elements and are still producing them abundantly. Dr. Fowler traced in detail the stellar nuclear reactions that build heavy elements, step by step, out of the original hydrogen...
...Whether by divine power or electrical cosmos, man operates in a highly limited field. He can neither fashion the future nor alter the past. His only power lies in the immediate present, and every effort to extend it ends in failure and frustration . . . Malraux seems to resent it that man fails to qualify as God's private secretary or chief button-pusher for some nuclear Jove. There is some evidence that man is approaching the latter, but unfortunately the only button on the horizon is destructive. Doubtless some Malraux will push the damn thing to prove his importance...
...Science proposes an image of the cosmos, not of man. The image of man as it existed in the great Christianity has lost weight. Religion still exists, but is no longer the aquarium: men are no longer swimming in it. Psychoanalysis has revealed to us only our monsters-those of each and those of humanity. It is not certain that our civilization can rediscover the heroes, and found on them its exemplary image of man . . . Only the future' will tell us whether the nations obsessed by the future-the U.S. and Russia-are better armed to reconquer the earth...