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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growing interest in space and the universe is producing an ever-increasing list of theories on one of the biggest of all scientific questions: Why is the universe expanding? Why do its galaxies fly apart like marbles in an explosion, while the galaxies themselves do not expand...
Gold and Hoyle, like Lyttleton...
...temperature, the hydrogen is hotter than the center of an exploding nuclear bomb. But the gas is spread so thin between the galaxies (fewer than ten atoms per cubic yard of space) that there is no appreciable heating effect on objects it surrounds. The heat merely makes it expand like any hot, unconfined gas; and since it fills the whole universe, the universe as a whole expands...
...scholars who cry for time to stretch the mind, a curious oasis in central California beckons like Elysium. The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, initial-named the Casbah, has been called "a resort for academic hipsters, a dreamy pad for a bunch of non-celibate monks." Its stunning redwood-and-glass buildings, sprawled elegantly on a green hill above Palo Alto, make it look like a motel for Rolls-Royce owners. It comes close to being a boondoggle-and one of the world's most exciting havens for deep thinkers...
Insights & Irreverence. One day last week, an odd procession of professors paced the place, each carrying a cornstalk. They looked like primitive rain worshipers. In a sense they were. Happy fugitives from many a brain-drying university, they were free to ponder-corn. And to their mentor. Botanist Edgar Anderson of St. Louis' Washington University, corn is the kernel of everything...