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...Heisenberg Principle also suggests that rational science may be limited in its ability to comprehend nature; at best it can only arrive at certain statistical probabilities in determining, say, where an electron is at any given moment. the concept that the universe cannot be known by more definite methods that such "guesswork" was so revolutionary that even Einstein could no accept it. " God does not play dice with the universe," he insisted...
...days are long past when a dedicated scientist like Michael Faraday or the young Thomas Edison, toiling alone or with a few associates in a simple lab, could hope to produce a fundamental breakthrough. Now most major discoveries require teams of highly trained researchers and such expensive equipment as electron microscopes, high-speed computers, atom smashers or radio telescopes In other words, without Government funds, pure science is bound to wither...
...mess. That bit of historical minutia was revealed by Scientist J.A. Swift of Britain's Unilever Research after an exhaustive analysis of a lock of hair that had been bequeathed by Miss Austen to her niece and ended among the relics of the Jane Austen Society. His scanning electron microscope, Swift reported in the erudite scientific journal Nature, showed that changes brought about in individual hairs by brushing and combing were absent from the lock of the woman who wrote Pride and Prejudice. "It must be concluded," said Swift, "that within the last three years of her life, Jane...
Arnold is convinced that his scheme is entirely feasible. As a demonstration, he reports in Science, he recently set up two detectors near Argonne's 12 billion-electron-volt proton synchrotron. Then he periodically inserted a small block of brass in the path of a beam of particles from the accelerator. The effect was predictable: whenever the metal was in the way, it slightly weakened but did not block the flow of muons to the detectors 160 yds. away. Arnold had in effect devised a simple Morse telegraph system. By appropriately timing the intervals during which the metal...
...Paleontology bases his theory on a treasure trove of dinosaur eggs unearthed near Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. So many fossilized egg fragments were found there that Erben concluded that dinosaurs had used the site as a regular nesting place for thousands of years. Using a scanning electron microscope, he determined that the average thickness of the eggshells in the lower or older layers ranged from 1.7 to 2.6 mm., while the shells in the younger layers were only about half as thick. Such fragile eggs could easily become dehydrated and broken, killing the dinosaur embryo. Scientists now have...