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...would be easy to dismiss Santilli's claims as the dissatisfied grumblings of a misguided physicist, but his story is too well documented and his charges too serious. While Santilli might have aroused personal opposition in the physics community, the events he relates are too glaring to be attributed to mere personality conflicts. His case is compelling and deserves to be heard--that it has been suppressed so far is undeniable...
...computing power. Scientists using supercomputers have been able to pry into nature in a way not possible before. By simulating everything from wind turbulence to gravitational fields, they have studied the mechanisms of thunderstorms, the optimum shape of an H-bomb, even the structure of the universe. Says Cornell Physicist Kenneth Wilson, the Nobel laureate who led the lobbying effort that resulted in last week's announcement: "The stakes are enormous...
Harvard is expected to try to lure the former Harvard associate professor back to Cambridge with a package that includes ample office space, workshop resources, sufficient salary, and employment for Skocpol's husband William, a Bell Laboratory physicist who also taught several years ago as a Harvard junior faculty member...
...Physicist Norman Ness reported that Voyager's magnetometers had "detected firm evidence" of a Uranian magnetic field about a third the strength of earth's. The existence of the field suggests that the giant planet, which is 64 times as large as the earth in volume but has a mass only 14 1/2 times as great, has a liquid core. Some scientists speculate, however, that the magnetic field may be generated by an electrically charged ocean covering the planet. Some of the larger moons apparently have, or at one time had, crustal movements that created the fault zones and valleys...
Richard P. Feynman, 66, is a Nobel-prizewinning physicist who talks like a New York City cabby, plays the bongo drums and, to judge from his uninhibited autobiography, thinks as much of his ability to crack safes as he does of his genius for breaking cosmic codes. As part of the brain trust that made the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, Feynman amused himself during quiet desert nights by entering colleagues' offices and picking the locks meant to guard nature's most destructive secrets. Since 1951 he has opened thousands of young minds as a professor at the California Institute...