Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For seven years, David Columpus could not understand television programs or carry on conversations with friends. Reason: an illness had left him totally deaf. But in 1977 life began to change radically for the former owner of a Michigan glass-recycling plant. He volunteered to take part in an experiment...
with the small experiment, "I can walk around with millions of atmospheres in my pocket," Silvera says.
Silvera took an entirely different approach, making his experiment small enough to fit under a microscope.
"It's a real revolution in high pressure technique," he says. "Because the area is so small, you don't need that much force." But the real bonus, he says, is that "the diamond gives a window on the experiment. We might actually be able to watch the hydrogen change...
The "experiment" ended in 1978, and the aftershocks were predictable: divorce, alcoholism, psychoses and stalled careers. Wambaugh ticks off a litany of blame: capricious immigration laws, social hypocrisy, improperly trained lawmen. But his greatest enmity is reserved for the television correspondents who overpublicized and melodramatized ten young men and their...