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...most of the passengers on Pan American Flight 106 from Washington's Dulles International Airport, it was simply a routine trip to London. But for Physicist Joseph C. Hafele and his companion, Astronomer Richard Keating, it was the beginning of a journey into the most esoteric realms of modern science. Occupying four seats in the big 747's tourist compartment-two for themselves and two for their scientific gear-they were setting off on an extraordinary round-the-world odyssey: an expedition to test Albert Einstein's controversial "clock paradox," which, stated simply, implies that time passes...
...indirect experimental evidence. The existence of short-lived sub-atomic particles, for example, seems to be extended when they are speeded up in atom smashers. But there has never been a satisfactory test of the prediction with a clock actually traveling through space. To conduct that test, Hafele, a physicist at Washington University in St. Louis, persuaded the U.S. Naval Observatory to lend him four extremely accurate atomic clocks, each valued at $17,000 and weighing 60 lbs. In addition, the Navy agreed to foot the bill ($7,400) for two round-the-world jet flights for Hafele, Keating...
...that will be produced at Batavia must encounter no dust or debris. To remove any obstructions from the seven 1,400-ft.-long tubes that channel the particles into a laboratory where mesons will be studied, designers had planned to build an expensive mechanical pipe cleaner. But visiting British Physicist Robert Sheldon had another idea. Recalling that ferrets had been used in Europe to scamper into burrows after rabbits, he suggested that one of the furry, weasel-like creatures might be able to do the Batavia cleaning job much more inexpensively...
Died. John Desmond Bernal, 70, physicist-philosopher and ardent Communist; of a stroke: in London. Called the "Sage" by fellow British scientists because of his encyclopedic knowledge, Bernal infuriated them with one of his favorite theories: "In capitalist countries, the direction of science is in the hands of those who hate peace." Nonetheless, they recognized the greatness of Bernal's own contributions to science, including experiments with crystals in the 1920s and '30s that helped lay the groundwork for molecular biology. When Sir John Anderson, Home Secretary at the outbreak of World War II, was criticized for hiring...
...Physicist Seaborg is just back from Russia, where he headed a delegation of ten visiting U.S. scientists. The group, in checking out eleven key Soviet installations,*covered 6,000 miles -all in Premier Aleksei Kosygin's private TU-134 jet. The scientists often stayed up until dawn talking shop with their Soviet counterparts, with Seaborg, as he has throughout his reign as AEC chief, pushing hard for the pooling of information...