Word: orbits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...verified in the past five years. As to what the electrons are doing when they are not radiating, chemists and physicists on the whole hold divergent views. The chemist believes the electrons are at rest (what I call "the loafer theory"), but the physicist believes they are rotating in orbits at enormous speed. The chemist argues that such activity would soon dissipate all their energy, which is unanswerable if the electromagnetic laws are assumed to be valid even in the structure of atoms. But this assumption is gratuitous. The orbit theory has now been substantiated by several successful quantitative tests...
...tremendous power in the Venusian atmosphere must rush from the cold to the hot side, creating a partial vacuum in the center of the illuminated hemisphere, with vast meteorological and electrical disturbances. At intervals of a year and three-fifths Venus and the earth are in conjunction, the orbit of Venus being located about one-third of the distance between that of the earth and the sun. At every fifth conjunction, or approximately eight years apart, there is a transit of Venus, i.e., Venus, the earth and the sun are in the same straight line. The planes of the orbits...
...present" capacity to pay reparations (meaning what Germany can pay from now until Jan. 1, 1930). This renders the conference useless, as at least a six-year moratorium of reparation payments must be granted to Germany. Furthermore, French insistence on keeping the Ruhr problem entirely out-side the orbit of the conference was understood to have been another factor unacceptable to the U. S. Government. President Coolidge ("the taciturn") described the conference as restricted by the French as " wholly futile and useless." Secretary Hughes said that an inquiry under such terms would be reduced to a mere "audit." Although...
...parts of the Einstein theory have been verified. The first of these merely accounts for the peculiarity in the precession of the orbit of Mercury. The precession of this orbit does not seem to obey the Newtonian law of gravitation, inasmuch as the precession exceeds by 42 seconds of are a century any possible precession under the Newtonian laws. Einstein's theory accounts for this difference most satisfactorily...
...present," concluded Professor Stetson, "the theory satisfactorily accounts for the irregular processional motion of the orbit of Mercury, and for the displacement of starlight passing through the sun's magnetic field on its way to the earth. If the Einstein theory of relativity is conclusively established, as no doubt it will be, the change in human thinking caused will be as great as that upheaval caused by Copernicus in substituting the heliocentric for the geocentric system of planetary motion, or, in other words, in maintaining that the sun and not the earth is the center of the solar system...