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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...managing his own shoe factory with 50 working partners. He drank milk, urged them to drink milk, ruled them for what he conceived to be their own good (and his) with a will of iron. Today Zlin boasts the largest per capita per day consumption of milk on earth...
...seems instantaneous, without beginning or end. But it must begin at one point, go to another, because the resistance of the air to the electric stress must break at one point. Dr. Simpson has shown that it always goes from a positively charged body to one negatively charged. The Earth's surface is negatively charged, the atmosphere positively. Whenever a lacy branching showed in photographs of the flash, Dr. Simpson has taken the direction the branches pointed as indicating the negative pole. But his theory has been that the top of the cloud is negative, the bottom positive...
What is known is that cosmic rays exist. They are infinitesimal, strike Earth with over 50,000,000 volts of power. What is not known is where they come from and why. Jeans locates their source on the stars, Millikan between the stars. They may be photons, the ultimate unit of light radiations. Photons could not be deflected by Earth's magnetic field. Or cosmic rays may be electrons, electrically charged matter which would be deflected by Earth's magnetic field. Since Dr. Millikan's researches showed that cosmic rays hit the Earth with the same force...
...made him suspect that cosmic rays were streams of electrons, particles of electrically charged matter. More upsetting to Dr. Millikan's theories of reborn matter was another suspicion: that energized electrons would probably not be foundlings from distant stars or interstellar space, would probably have originated in the Earth's atmosphere...
Observers last week were already writing Dr. Millikan's answer for him. In his laboratory Millikan had seen cosmic rays penetrate 50 ft. of lead, knock electrons out of atmosphere atoms. Such electrons, Dr. Millikan might say, would naturally spiral toward the poles, knocked out of Earth-atmosphere atoms by cosmic rays still unexplained by Dr. Compton...