Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement was an unmistakable call to the committee for help: "This committee is a proper group to resolve these differences into a sound plan founded in carefully drawn legislation." It is reassuring to know, he added with emphasis, "that this committee is devoting its full attention to this important matter...
This is untrue, and indeed libelous. The Agency Corporation has a solid, carefully worked out structure of doing business, approved by the Massachusetts Department of Corporations and Taxation, and open to their inspection. The heart of the matter is that virtually all the income passing through the Corporation goes to students for wages; and that the Corporation itself plans just to break even on operating expenses and overhead. No officer of the Corporation and no Director receives...
Einstein sought precisely this: a unified field theory. Relativity, which explained the motion of large bodies in a gravitational field, has never explained the behavior of subatomic particles, which are controlled by electric forces. Yet both presumably obey the same general laws, since both are matter. Whether or not Heisenberg's "suggestion" can be proved experimentally, his goal is the classic one: "The future theory of matter will probably contain, as conceived in Plato's philosophy, only assumptions of symmetry...
...their accelerators. Dr. John Grebe (rhymes with Hebe) begins with what they do see. A noted industrial researcher who was a leader in the wartime development of styrene for synthetic rubber, Grebe nevertheless has the same classical approach as Heisenberg. The secret of why the fundamental particles of matter somehow hold together in the atomic nucleus, he feels, must be less complicated than researchers believe. Reason: the rest of nature is "so beautiful and orderly and ultrasimple...
...exciting new parlor game among physicists is speculating about antimatter in bulk. The earth contains no antimatter because matter and antimatter destroy each other as soon as they meet. Antiparticles are now being created in the laboratory, but the trick of actually building antiatoms is likely to take a long time (TIME, April 21). Meanwhile, those who cherish the laws of symmetry are considering the possibility of distant anti-galaxies in space. Such weird other worlds, balancing galaxies of ordinary matter in the universe, may well exist...