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In the midst of the apocalyptic vision vouchsafed the apostle John on the island of Patmos, there occurs a moment of strange quiet: "And when the Lamb had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." It is an interval of cosmic...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Seventh Seal | 8/16/1962 | See Source »

In a day when statistics no longer surprise, President Kennedy's top scientific adviser found a way to dramatize the $12.3 billion that the U.S. Government is spending this fiscal year on research and development for defense and space. It is, Jerome Wiesner told a congressional subcommittee, more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trends: Changing the Map | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

When Gen Ed was adopted it was not looked on as final and perfect, and there was a feeling that the program would need a reconsideration after some years of practice. Ten years then seemed a proper interval, and that would put the review any time after the next academic...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: The General Education Program, A Qualified Success | 6/14/1962 | See Source »

The engineers figure that only a dozen photons from each flash completed the round trip. But they arrived after the proper time interval (about 2.5 sec.), which proved that they had actually gone to the moon and back. This was the first time a segment of space had been spanned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Talk Between Planets | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

The best way now available for measuring the distance of an object far out in space is to bounce a radio signal off it and measure the time it takes for the reflected pulse of radio energy to return. This time interval, multiplied by the speed of light (which is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Measuring the Universe | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

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