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...toss its heavier load 1,000 extra miles, the A-3 packs more thrust and less deadweight. First-stage fuel, made by Aerojet General Corp., is denser, so that more can be carried in the same space. It is also more powerful, producing a hotter flame (6,300 to 6,600° F.) and more thrust. The casing that restrains its pressure (800 to 900 lbs. per sq. in.) has been lightened by making it out of filament-wound glass fiber instead of metal...
...philosophical thicket seems denser to the Western eye than Hinduism, and no country more confusing than India. In this long, densely packed novel of the intellectual and emotional odyssey of a high-caste Brahman, Indian Author Raja Rao offers an intimate look at Indian family life seen from the inside, and a sometimes illuminating, sometimes bewildering tour of the strange-blooming intricacies of Hindu thought as his hero grapples with the mundane practicalities of the West. With a novelist's illusionist skill, Rao makes it all as fascinating as a basketful of talking cobras...
...shaped antennas of a Stanford University radio telescope, Dr. Cudaback spent three months measuring the moon's own electronic transmissions. He traced the variations in the moon's electrical characteristics, tracked its composition through yards of abstruse equations and decided that its outer surface is just barely denser than the empty space around...
...cracks that were recently found in the ocean floor (TIME, Sept. 14, 1959). Gravitation also determines the size of the stars, which are balls of hot gas. If gravitation was stronger in the past, the stars must have been smaller. They were probably brighter, too, because their denser interiors generated more thermonuclear energy than they do now. The sun, a typical star, must have been bright enough 2 billion years ago to make the surface of the earth much warmer than it is now. Perhaps this is why the oldest fossils found in ancient rocks are remains of algae, some...
...each pair of stars, Dr. Kraft thinks, is probably a white dwarf: a star that has burned so thoroughly that it now consists chiefly of "degenerate" matter, denser than anything known on earth. This remarkable stuff weighs thousands of pounds per cubic inch. The nova's degenerate core is extremely hot, but its surface is covered with a thin, rather cool layer of normal matter. The other star of each pair is all normal matter, mostly hydrogen, and just about the same weight and size as the sun. In many cases, Dr. Kraft is sure the two stars...