Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But the spacewalk difficulties encountered by Gordon-and by Cernan before him-have had a restraining effect on NASA officials. Last week, anxious that nothing go wrong on the final Gemini flight, they canceled the entire AMU experiment and began planning a simpler and less arduous space walk that will...
On Good Friday, 1962, Pahnke made his first experiment in drug-induced mysticism in a private chapel at Boston University. Religious services were held for 20 volunteers, all of them divinity students, half of whom were given psilocybin, while the rest took a non-psychedelic substance administered as a sort...
The experiment clearly proved that tethered spaceships can orbit in formation without wasting fuel. Robert Gilruth, director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, immediately conjured up "colonies of vehicles fastened together in ways like this." The slow rotation of the system also provided a bonus: a small centrifugal force...
Reversing the Field. In their experiment at Geneva, the European physicists also studied eta-meson decay. They analyzed 10,665 photographs of tracks made by pions in the CERN spark chamber, and in their larger, more reliable statistical sample, they found no significant difference in the energy levels of positive...
Though most scientists at the Berkeley meeting privately sided with the CERN findings, none would state flatly that symmetry had, after all, been restored. Franzini's group is preparing a new round of experiments at Brookhaven in an attempt to confirm the violations they reported; still another team led...