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...estimated span for the origin of the shroud's linen was later detailed in an article co-written with the other two labs for the journal Nature, which straightforwardly stated that the radiocarbon-dating results "provide conclusive evidence that the linen of the Shroud of Turin is medieval." Nuclear physicist Harry Gove, who helped develop the radiocarbon-dating process used on the shroud, went a bit further. He said the odds were "about one in a thousand trillion" against the shroud's having been woven in the time of Jesus. Edward Hall, a member of the Oxford team, went further...
...published his first newspaper calling for revolution in Russia. Churchill, 25, was elected to the House of Commons. J.P. Morgan began working with a young executive named Charles Schwab to buy out Andrew Carnegie and conglomerate U.S. Steel, by far the biggest business in the world. And the German physicist Max Planck made one of the discoveries that would shape the century: that atoms emit radiations of energy in bursts he called quanta...
...ELECTRONIC CENTURY A defining event actually occurred three years before the century began: the discovery of the electron by British physicist J.J. Thomson. Along with Planck's 1900 theory of quantum physics, this discovery led to the first weapon of mass destruction, which helped hasten the end of the Second World War and became the defining reality of the cold war. Alan Turing harnessed electronics to devise the first digital computers. Five centuries earlier, Gutenberg's printing press had cut the cost of transmitting information by a factor of a thousand. That paved the way for the Reformation by allowing...
...digital revolution that burns so brightly today is likely to pale in comparison to the revolution in biotechnology that is just beginning. Physicist Stephen Hawking, speaking at the White House last month on science in the next millennium, pointed out that for the past 10,000 years there has been no significant change in our human DNA. But over the next hundred years, we will be able and tempted to tinker. No doubt we'll make some improvements and some mistakes. We'll encode our dreams and vanities and hubris. We'll clone ourselves, we'll custom-design our kids...
Nearly 40 years ago, the British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow also lamented the polarization of science and the humanities. His essay, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, sparked one of the liveliest debates of the postwar era. Today, of course, there are at least 22 cultures, each celebrating its difference, none much interested in looking for common ground...