Word: experimentally
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". . . to communicate . . . the methods by which scientific knowledge has advanced within the past four hundred years, and illustrate the combination of logical analysis, careful observation and experiment, and imaginative insight which has characterized the scientific advances of the past."
That experiment in 1932 was man's first taste of nuclear energy, but it was like the quick-fading taste of a single grain of sugar. Since most of the protons missed their targets, the hydrogen-lithium reaction gave a net loss of energy, and no one knew how...
Except for such demonstrations as the 1932 Cockcroft-Walton experiment, the only way to get a fusion reaction is to raise the temperature. The hotter a material gets, the faster its atoms move. If it gets hot enough, they may hit one another so hard that they combine into larger...
Author Jungk found this particular superman in an aviation medical-research laboratory in California, whirling around in a centrifuge in an experiment actually calculated to save the lives of jet pilots under stress of heavy-gravity .pull. But Jungk likes the symbol far better than the simple fact. A onetime...
"Are you weary of 'McCarthy' stories?" asked the Manhattan (Kans.) Mercury-Chronicle (circ. 6,157). The paper, one of seven dailies owned by the family of Assistant Secretary of Defense Frederick A. Seaton, decided that most of its readers were. The Mercury-Chronicle announced that it would experiment...