Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what about the near future, and now? Could black holes have any effect on contemporary civilization? Says the University of Arizona's Roger Angel: "There is no practical use for these things." Well, perhaps for the moment. But even normally cautious scientists like to dream, and nothing seems to evoke futuristic reveries as much as black holes...
...holes that Hawking at first doubted his results. But no one has yet uncovered flaws in his elaborate mathematics. Indeed, many theorists believe that with this work Hawking may well have qualified for the Nobel Prize by taking the first step toward a goal that has long been a dream of physicists: the consummation of what Wheeler calls the "fiery marriage" between general relativity-the great theoretical system for studying the large-scale structure of the cosmos-and quantum mechanics-the mathematical tool for analyzing the diminutive world of the atomic nucleus...
What next? Why, to build a new balloon and circumnavigate the world. By soaring higher and ghosting along on stronger winds, Abruzzo figures that the trio might be able to do Jules Verne one better-in fact 50 days better-going around the world in 30 days. That dream itself provides a marvelous end to a marvelous adventure...
...intended to be keystone policies of the Dubček government. In a highly bastardized form, they have been revived by Finance Minister Leopold Lér. But Lér's plan in no way envisions the kind of widespread shop-floor democracy that had been the dream of Dubček's Finance Minister...
...avoid all risks and to find culprits for all injuries is going too far. The attitude rests on a refusal to to accept fate or personal folly as the real source of many of life's bumps. It is as if society is beset by the Utopian dream of a world that is free, if not of risks, then of all individual responsibility for those taken and lost...