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Another theory was developed by Britain's late Mathematician Edward A. Milne, who died last year. The light from the distant nebulae, said Milne, is "fossil light." It started its journey several hundred million years ago, and light in those ancient days may have been different from light today, just as dinosaurs are different from modern animals. The glowing calcium atoms that now give blue light, for instance, may have given green light then. When the fossil green light reaches the earth, Milne said, it fools astronomers into thinking that the nebulae it came from are moving away from...
...most commonly used methods for freeing fossils are risky. Acid, for instance, dissolves limestone, but it also destroys many types of fossils. Some grades of stone can be scaled away with the flame of a blow torch, but this method is limited and difficult. Other stones, heated and then dipped in cold water, sometimes crack away from the fossils they contain. Too often, the rapid change of temperature shatters the fossil as well as the stone...
Movins said evidence of equally ancient human existence has been unearthed in Europe but never before in Asia. Coon's assertion that the fossil dates back to the third interglacial period still has to be substantiated by geologists, Movius pointed...
Beautiful Fossil. At 23 Gregory Dix became a history don at Oxford, but after a couple of years the job began to bore him. When a friend told him that missionary teachers were needed to train African natives in the ministry, he volunteered. After three years, desperately ill of dysentery, he returned, "leaving a large part of my insides in Africa," to face what seemed bound to be like a life of invalidism. He decided to devote his life to studying the origins of the Christian Church. In 1940 he became a monk, is now prior of Nashdom Abbey...
...next six months. Wherever there is time for him to train assistants, he will also conduct a demonstration of the Mass as it was performed in approximately 200 A.D. Such Dix demonstrations aim to make Communion meaningful to Christians for whom it has been a beautiful but meaningless fossil of antique forms...