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...ally that helped the U.S. through World War II is back working for the U.S. again in Korea. After years of observing the effect of sunspots on electrical communications, Cornell's Dr. Carl W. Gartlein reported last week in a survey for the National Geographic Society that the sun is still doing...
Sunspots, and the electrical particles that shoot out from them, come & go in an eleven-year cycle. During World War II the sunspots were waning, and the earth was comparatively free of electrical disturbances. This favored the allies, says Dr. Gartlein, because they relied more on electrical communications than the Nazis or the Japanese...
After World War II, says Gartlein, the sunspot cycle turned upward, reaching its peak in the winter of 1948-49. That was a time of troubles in the electrical world, when the sunspots' pesky particles disrupted communications for entire days. Then the cycle turned downward again. In the fall of 1950, the sun showed an almost spotless face for the first time in six years. The bottom of the cycle will be reached in 1954. So, says Dr. Gartlein, the U.S. and its friends (who are more electrical-minded than the Reds) will have the sun's help...
Northern Visitors. Dr. Carl W. Gartlein of Cornell told the physicists how he'd taken spectrograms of auroras (northern lights) and found that some of their light comes from hydrogen ions (protons...
...auroras are connected with sun spots and other eruptions on the sun. They were pretty sure that particles of some sort, driven out of the sun, touch off the northern lights when they hit the earth's atmosphere. But they did not know what the particles were. Dr. Gartlein is sure that they are solar protons hitting the outer fringes of the atmosphere at about 300 miles per second. When they capture electrons from atmospheric atoms, they give off a little light. Most of the aurora's light, however, comes from oxygen and nitrogen atoms which the solar...
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