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...drew plans for a one-man submarine and a "flying carriage." In Sweden's House of Nobles he spoke brilliantly in favor of trade, liquor-control laws, and the decimal system. He was a physicist who anticipated Kant and Laplace in the nebular hypothesis, and a paleontologist far ahead of his time. His contributions to science included a modern theory of molecular magnetics, a system of crystallography, a mercury air pump, and a method of determining longitude at sea from the moon...
Lucio Fontana, 53, who founded the spatialist school in Buenos Aires six years ago, also submitted a display. It was a spinning, nebular mass perforated with hundreds of tiny holes and lighted from the back. "We conceive of art," says Head Spatialist Fontana, "as the sum of physical elements-color, sound, movement, time, space-forming a physical, psychic unity . . . an art which must be communicated through new techniques and mediums." He foresees a day when vibrating images and even smoke will be televised as art. "For me," he says, "painting within a frame is dead, and sculpture as we know...
Your Science article [TIME, June 25] on the work of Humason and the redshift of the nebular spectra is excellent and is interestingly written. However, the story tends to give an inaccurate idea by saying that this effect was "first discovered by Hubble . . . and that on it he based his startling theory of the expanding universe." In reality, I believe you will find that the redshift was first observed by V. M. Slipher of Lowell Observatory. Hubble, however, was the one to notice the law connecting the amount of the shift and the distance of the nebulae...
Whipple became famous last year for his work on the Dust-Cloud Hypothesis, the modern theory on how the solar system developed. His theory has virtually replaced the older Planetary and Nebular Hypotheses, which were proved implausible several years...
...casual kibitzer, cribbage is as baffling as the nebular hypothesis. Even though one may know that its main object is to form various counting combinations (like Pairs, Runs, Fifteens) and register them with wooden pegs until someone gets 61 (or 121 in a double round), one can listen to its time-honored lingo for hours without catching...