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Phenix of Columbia-a onetime Quaker turned Presbyterian, an Army chaplain turned meteorologist, a physicist turned reverend, appears equally confused about the technique inherent in leading children to avoid "a gnawing sense of meaninglessness" in their adult lives...
...activities of the Society consist of missionary work among freshmen and enlightened sniping at diehards. "Members also engage in sports, drama, PBH, dating, and other non-physicist pursuits...
Lowell (named after James Russell) is the only U.S. high school to claim two Nobel prizewinners: Physicist Albert Michelson ('68), the first U.S. winner, and Physicist Joseph Erlanger ('90). Lowell's other alumni include such diverse notables as Actress Carol Channing, Paper Tycoon J. D. Zellerbach, Author Irving Stone, Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Baseball Player Jerry Coleman, the late Publisher (Washington Post) Eugene Meyer, Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, California Governor Pat Brown...
Though many a cosmologist was bothered by the bizarre idea of a swiftly expanding universe, no one yet has been able to prove it wrong. But last week in the British journal Nature, Physicist Alastair Ward of Glasgow's Royal College of Science and Technology suggested a possible way to squelch the big explosion and bring the universe back into a steady state of vast but stable dimensions. Colliding light beams may lose some of their energy, says Ward, as photons (particles of light) carom off other photons. The loss of energy might cause a lengthening of wave length...
...Other physicists have toyed with the same notion, but Ward describes an actual experiment to test this theory. The Mössbauer Effect, discovery of which won German Physicist Rudolph Mössbauer a Nobel Prize (TIME, Nov. 10), allows gamma rays from certain radioactive isotopes to be used for measurements of extreme precision. Since gamma rays are closely akin to light, Physicist Ward suggests shooting them across an intense light beam and measuring any loss of energy due to photon-photon collisions...