Word: lasered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...systems are incompatible: RCA discs cannot be played on Magnavox machines and vice versa. Concedes RCA Executive Vice President Herbert Schlosser: "Eventually one system will dominate." Magnavox uses smooth-surfaced plastic discs. To see a film, one places the disc on the machine's phonograph-like turntable; a laser beam picks up the sound and images, which are then played through the attached TV set. Some Magnavox discs play for 30 min. a side, but movies take 60 min. RCA's discs, which will all play for 60 min., are grooved like records, and a stylus is used...
...import for all of physics: it not only laid down the basic principle of the laser some 40 years before the first such device was made but, more broadly, also advanced quantum theory. In addition, Einstein contributed significantly to the rebirth of cosmology, the study of the origin, history and shape of the universe. The Dutch astronomer Willem de Sitter and later the Russian scientist Alexander Friedmann had concluded that Einstein's equations pointed to an unstable universe ?possibly an expanding one. Because such a changing, dynamic universe was totally at odds with the popular picture of the heavens...
...budget increases the NSF's funding from $911 million to about $1 billion and provides for additional research on human nutrition and the environment, sub-micron science, and laser chemistry...
...Harvard has led the field of laser research and would probably benefit from increased funding in the area, Harvey Brooks, Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, said yesterday...
...play, a primary eyesore for Harvard so far, put it together for the first tally. The Crimson came into the contest shooting a paltry 17 per cent in man-up situations before freshman Mike Watson made good on the first Vermont penalty of the contest, redirecting a John Cochrane laser by Frost...