Word: creation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rare bestseller, bring only $300. But the mere fact that a work is put on permanent vinyl plastic makes its composer seem more substantial. One of today's most popular contemporary LPs, Colin Mc-Phee's Tabuh-Tabuhan, had a grand total of three performances between its creation, 20 years ago, and the time it came out on records (Mercury) this summer. Since then, at least half a dozen groups have made plans to perform it. Most popular modern composers on disks: Bartok, Prokofiev, Stravinsky...
...begin? How will it end?-British Cosmologist Fred Hoyle had a pair of startling answers: It had no beginning and will have no end. Instead, according to Hoyle. the universe is a steady state that is infinite in space and time and has a constant density maintained by the creation of new matter to compensate for the thinning of matter by expansion (TIME, Sept...
...show (of Abstractionist Hans Hofmann) will open at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Typically, Wight feels embarrassed by his varied successes. "Idon't kid myself " he says in his customary murmur, squinting as if at a disappearing bird. "This showing all over the country, or flying all over creation, is not a virtue. It's a symptom of still being too many things to too many relations." It is also, like Wight's paintings, a running struggle to seize man's brief "adventure in time...
...most popular theories of the origin of matter assume only the asymmetric creation of nucleons (protons and neutrons). But what about the creation of anti-nucleons (antiprotons and anti-neutrons)? To preserve symmetry, Goldhaber postulates that all matter-positive and negative-may be traced to an unstable, giant particle that he calls the "universon." At some dawn of time this particle split into a positively charged "cosmon" and a negatively charged "anti-cosmon," much like a fundamental particle, e.g., a heavy meson, disintegrating automatically into two oppositely charged particles. Energy released by the split shoved apart the cosmon and anti...
...Pair of Creation. In 1932, physicists discovered that positive electrons (positrons) are created out of energy by cosmic rays. They can also be made artificially by high-energy gamma rays from radioactive elements. Positrons do not last long; as soon as one of them hits a normal electron, both particles are annihilated, turning back into the energy out of which they were made. But the proof that positrons exist was a victory for believers in nature's symmetry. Better still was the fact when a positron is created, it always appears in a "pair" with an ordinary negative electron...