Word: physicist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editors become convinced that they can somehow unravel the Templars' scheme if they put a secret map under Foucault's pendulum, a device invented by the 19th century physicist Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault to measure the earth's rotation. The pendulum, which still stands in Paris today, will supposedly indicate a site at which the earth's vital currents can be controlled, earthquakes can be created...
...physicist added that he believed thattoday's politicians need to understand better theimportance of technology in today's world...
...Physicist and former Delaware lieutenantgovernor S.B. Woo addressed a different fault ofcontemporary politicians...
...TIME's Profile section, is the department's first cover subject. Since the section was introduced 14 months ago, TIME staffers have traveled to northern India to interview the Dalai Lama, to London to speak with hospice pioneer Cicely Saunders and to Cambridge, England, to explore the cosmos with physicist Stephen Hawking. "Since the magazine's founding, one of TIME's great strengths has been to give readers a very strong and multidimensional look at people," says executive editor Ronald Kriss. "Our aim is not just to chronicle what they say and do but to convey their strengths, their weaknesses...
This week, at the American Astronomical Society's winter meeting in Boston, physicist Alan Guth of M.I.T. will announce the most mind-numbing wormhole- related news yet. Guth and two collaborators have determined, he says, that "it would apparently be possible in principle for some advanced society literally to create an entirely new universe." The wormhole connection: such + a universe would automatically create its own wormhole, squeeze through it, and then draw the hole closed after...