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...production. A major saving can be made with proper insulation, because in the average home about 25% of the heat escapes through the roof. Turning down the thermostat can also make a big difference. A difference of only two degrees year-round in American homes, says University of Tennessee Physicist John R. Gibbons, could be the equivalent of saving 100 million tons of coal per year. Perpetually burning pilot lights on gas stoves are another wasteful luxury that can be eliminated. Moreover, home electric bills could be cut if consumers would buy the most efficient appliances. Electric heating is notoriously...
EPHRAIM KATZIR, Israel, the newly elected President of Israel, a Russian-born physicist...
...days when U.S. businessmen venture into Moscow to explore trade possibilities, they frequently have in mind a simple machines-for-minerals deal−their technology in return for Siberian natural gas, for example. Soviet leaders, who have been criticized at home for planning to turn Russia into what dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov once termed a "raw-material supply appendage" for the West, are extremely sensitive about such proposals. They are far more receptive to plans that allow the Soviets to pay for the U.S. technology they want with the very goods that will be produced by using that technology. Occidental...
Such a radical attack on science's vaunted objectivity is supported by no less a scientific dictum than Physicist Werner Heisenberg's half-century-old Principle of Uncertainty, which points out that the very act of observing disturbs the system. Writes Physicist Dietrich Schroeer in his perceptive book Phyics and Its Fifth Dimension: Society: "It seem to be just as the romantics have been claiming. The observer cannot be separated from the experiment...
...things in the world." He adds that it is only people with tunnel vision who "think our science will go on in a lineal, explanatory fash ion. It may be that aspects of mysticism totally outside science may come back and be incorporated within its framework." The eminent German physicist-philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker believes that such a unity already exists. At his in stitute outside Munich, he is attempting to show the essential convergence between Eastern mysticism and Western science. Gopi Krishna, an exponent of Kundalini Yoga, was his guest there for six months. From their discussions, Weizsacker...