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...nations; by their U. S. Ministers; on Dr. Tesla's 80th (or 81st) * birthday, in Manhattan. As is his birthday custom, Dr. Tesla received the press and announced a series of new marvels, including an apparatus "by which energy in considerable amounts can now be flashed through interstellar space"-but no models, no drawings, no equations...
...human body can stand, and that in rocketing between America and Europe we will accelerate halfway across the ocean and decelerate during the other half. Or, he might even point his rocket toward another planet and, without regard to fuel supply, landing facilities, or Professor Goddard, lose himself in interstellar space...
Urbane, affable, gregarious, he likes good Scotch, good cigars, good dinners, Stilton cheese, seldom appears without a white carnation in his lapel. Years ago after making long telescope observations, with a glass of Scotch & soda for company, he used to dream that he was suspended in interstellar space at a temperature of Absolute Zero. Lately such nightmares have troubled him less frequently...
...Interstellar Gas. Until this year the only gases known to occur in interstellar space were sodium and calcium. Ordinarily these metallic elements must be strongly heated before they vaporize, but in the utter cold of space, close to absolute zero, they exist in exiguous quantities as free molecules and therefore as gases. In the ultraviolet range of the spectrum of the stars Chi 2 Orionis and Chi Aurigae, Astronomers Walter S. Adams and Theodore Dunham Jr. of Mt. Wilson Observatory found four lines (one of them almost blotted out by the interference of Earth's atmosphere) which they identified...
Millikan's Photons. It seemed natural to Dr. Millikan that the cosmic rays were light rays or photons of enormously high frequency and short wave length. He concluded that they were the by-products of atom-building in interstellar space; that when light-weight atoms suddenly combined to form heavier ones, a slight excess of matter-like bricklayer's mortar scraped from the wall-was turned into high-frequency light according to the Einstein equation. To him this was a peculiarly satisfying interpretation as it bespoke "the Creator still...