Word: matter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy's problems with safety may not all be a matter of preparedness among its crews. TIME has learned that the Naval Investigative Service is looking into whether Scott Aviation, a defense contractor based in Lancaster, N.Y., sold the Navy smoke-protection gear that the company knew did not work as intended. Since 1981 the Navy has purchased more than 450,000 of Scott's Emergency Escape Breathing Devices, hoodlike units that fit over the head and neck to provide breathable air while blocking the entry of toxic fumes. They are now used on virtually all naval vessels except submarines...
...another idea, called the cold dark matter theory, has gathered more support. This theory postulates an as yet undiscovered form of exotic subatomic particle that pervades the universe. The presence of this mysterious "dark matter" could explain why most galaxies -- including our Milky Way -- seem, judging from measurements of gravitational forces, to contain about ten times as much invisible matter as they do visible stars, gas and dust. The existence of dark matter is needed to fill the gaps in some of the Grand Unified Theories that physicists have concocted to account for the fundamental structure of matter and energy...
...particular, some scientists speculate that cold dark matter caused galaxies to form into the kind of bubbles Geller and Huchra have found. The process supposedly got under way 10 billion to 20 billion years ago, when the universe began with the Big Bang and the energy from that explosion started to condense into matter. Since then, ordinary visible matter, by itself, has probably not had time to gather into enormous structures. But cold dark matter may have condensed first, and its gravitational force could have helped pull visible matter into bubbles and galaxies. In fact, recent computer simulations at Princeton...
...bright starlike object) ever spotted. It is billions of light-years away, and the researchers estimate that it existed when the universe was only 7% of its present age. It is hard to explain how a quasar could be formed that early, even under the influence of cold dark matter...
...Murphy be kidding? One would certainly like to think so. But the film that follows is so self-destructively primitive in tone and development that it quickly dismisses the possibility that its superstar proprietor may retain any capacity for self-satire. Or, for that matter, self-control or self- criticism...