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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure this ether wind. Their idea was to measure the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) against the speed of the earth's motion on its orbit around the sun (18.5 miles per second). They set up their apparatus, an affair of many mirrors, in a lab in a downtown Cleveland building. Once a day the earth's rotation aligned the apparatus with the earth's path around the sun. If there were an ether wind, the light flashing across their lab floor should be slowed by 18.5 miles per second. Twelve hours later...
...assisted by John Cedarholm of International Business Machines, Dr. Townes set up his ether-hunting apparatus in IBM's Watson Laboratory at Columbia. Two masers were arranged so that they shot their microwaves in opposite directions. As the masers (and the lab) swung with the turning earth to align the waves first with the direction of the earth's motion around the sun and then against it, any ether wind should have shown as an easily detected difference of frequency. But the recording pen never wavered...
When Russia's top nuclear engineers visited Oak Ridge National Laboratory last fall, the thing that impressed them most was a cylindrical, tanklike object 55 ft. long. They sat in rows of chairs while short, slender Dr. Alvin M. Weinberg, the 44-year-old physicist who is the lab's director, told them what was inside the tank: an experimental reactor in which liquid fuel replaces the troublesome solid-fuel elements of conventional power reactors. "A very bold idea," conceded Professor Vasily S. Emelyanov, chief of the Russian group. Last week Dr. Weinberg cautiously told his laboratory mates...