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...Creator is still on the job." California's great Robert Andrews Millikan has said that so often that it has become a slogan, epitomizing his personal philosophy as well as his scientific theories. Cosmic rays, he has time & again told the world, are born of the creation of matter in interstellar space. Last week in London, before most of the world's greatest physicists, Dr. Millikan was ready to admit, and did admit, that cosmic rays seem to be offspring of destruction as well as of creation...
...Millikan was sure the rays were electrically neutral photons or light bullets. The University of Chicago's beetle-browed Arthur Holly Compton was equally certain they were electrically charged corpuscles. Dr. Compton's stand was strengthened by the piling up of evidence that cosmic ray intensity is less near the Equator than in high latitudes. That seemed to show that the rays were charged particles attracted to the Poles as a compass needle is. Then it was found that more cosmic rays come from the west than from the east. That datum, considered with reference to Earth...
...Millikan rejoined that these corpuscles were very likely atmospheric ions, secondary products of the primary photons. Once on the verge of heated dispute (TIME, Jan. 9, 1933), the two savants re-established cordial relations by agreeing that the primary radiation might well be mixed-each retaining his own view of the proportion of mixture...
...station attendants Scientist Robbert A. Millikan said: "Why, they have improved the manners and the courtesy and the consideration of the American public more than all the colleges in the country...
...Sullivan. Now and then physicists on one battlefront or another pause to deliver philosophical interpretations. Thus on the mathematical front Dr. Planck, now an enthusiastic Nazi, year ago published a book on the nature and limitations of physical science. On the experimental front pious Dr. Millikan, who believes the cosmic rays are by-products of the creation of matter in interstellar space, argues that "the Creator is still on the job," that Science and Religion do not conflict. Dr. Compton has lately been brought to a similarly reverent attitude by the "free will" behavior of electrons and photons. But there...