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...still on the job." California's great Robert Andrews Millikan has said that so often that it has become a slogan, epitomizing his personal philosophy as well as his scientific theories. Cosmic rays, he has time & again told the world, are born of the creation of matter in interstellar space. Last week in London, before most of the world's greatest physicists, Dr. Millikan was ready to admit, and did admit, that cosmic rays seem to be offspring of destruction as well as of creation...
...deliver philosophical interpretations. Thus on the mathematical front Dr. Planck, now an enthusiastic Nazi, year ago published a book on the nature and limitations of physical science. On the experimental front pious Dr. Millikan, who believes the cosmic rays are by-products of the creation of matter in interstellar space, argues that "the Creator is still on the job," that Science and Religion do not conflict. Dr. Compton has lately been brought to a similarly reverent attitude by the "free will" behavior of electrons and photons. But there are two men who are at home on both the mathematical...
...calculations from the Einstein formula and measurements of the energies of cosmic rays, Caltech's Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan reached the disputed conclusion that interstellar energy is constantly accumulating in the form of the familiar elements...
...reddened light is both a measure of the blue light lost into particles of matter between the stars and a measure of the number of such particles. From these factors Dr. Struve calculates there is not more than one particle of star dust in each 15 cu. in. of interstellar space. If that is so, then all the star dust along the 25-million-million-mile line between Earth and Proxima Centauri, nearest star except the Sun, could be packed in a half-inch cube...
Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Observatory, announced last night that B. J. Bok, Wilson Teaching Fellow, and tutor in the division of Physical Sciences, had been awarded the Roberts Prize for research concerning the absorbtion of matter in interstellar space...