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While the President was amazed at the intricacy and microsecond timing of carrier operations (he said, "Saratoga looks good. We know, just as you do, that she is good."), one somber note crept into the good sailing he had enjoyed. Three Navy fighter planes from Cecil Field, Fla. crashed on routine operations in the vicinity of Sara, and operations were suspended or altered to search out the pilots, reducing the presidential task force from 19 to three ships. Two pilots were saved, one lost, and Ike, deeply disturbed, sent .his sympathy to the next...
Your Dec. 17 account of the proposal of the name shake for a unit of time equal to one-hundredth microsecond was interesting, but tended to leave the impression that such minute intervals are a very recent phenomenon in physics . . . During the war, in order to avoid using the somewhat revealing word "microsecond" in telephone conversations, it was dubbed the "dollar" in one section of the Manhattan project, so that what is now a shake became a "penny." The "jiffy" has been used for one ten-thousandth of a shake and probably for other short intervals...
...beginning, says one school of cosmology, there was "ylem"*: a featureless mass of protons and neutrons containing all the matter in the universe. A little later (perhaps during the second microsecond of Creation), a "great event" took place. The ylem exploded with enough force to toss most of its matter a billion light years away. During the early moments of the resulting confusion, the protons and neutrons reorganized themselves into the chemical elements that form the present-day universe...
...current of one electron per second, smallest current measured so far; 2) the device (including thyratron tubes) of Dr. Wynn Williams of Cambridge University, England, which counts alpha particles (nuclei of helium atoms) as they explode from radium at a speed of 12,000 mi. per sec., and ten microseconds apart. (A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.) Dr. Kenneth T. Bainbridge of Bartol Laboratories, Philadelphia, again described his two-ton mass-spectrograph which is sensitive to one-trillionth of a trillionth of an ounce (TIME, Feb. 22), which delicately indicated that the average atomic weight of the isotopes...