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Indirect Evidence. To substantiate his hunch that this is what happens on Jupiter, Lieut. Colonel Streett (a mechanical-engineer-turned-physicist who heads West Point's new science research laboratory) calculated the effects of high pressures on hydrogen and helium, the basic gases in the Jovian atmosphere. He deduced that if such a combination were subjected to several hundred thousand times earthly atmospheric pressure (14.7 Ibs. per sq. in. at sea level), the hydrogen would begin to solidify first, its density becoming less than that of the remaining gaseous mixture of hydrogen and helium. Physicist Ringermacher, then a Private...
Saucer skeptics have a number of theories. For one thing, an intensive Air Force-sponsored study of UFO "sightings," conducted under the supervision of University of Colorado Physicist Edward U. Condon, was issued...
...1930s, the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and one of his graduate students at the University of California, Hartland Snyder, proposed what seemed like a wildly improbable idea. When the nuclear fires of extremely massive stars die out, they suggested, the stars collapse so completely under the pull of their own gravity that they literally crush themselves out of existence, leaving only a "black hole" in space as evidence of their passing. Now, just as scientists are beginning to study the first tentative signs that there really may be such black holes (TIME, April 5), they are also being asked...
...Danish Physicist Theory takes its name from the fact that, in the past 20 to 30 years, an unusually high number of physic?? from Scandinavia-and other Northern European countries-have received Harvard's honorary So. D. According to the theory, you can break down recipients of honoraries into several different categories, and then proceed to make your guesses...
Honorary degrees are always a well-kept secret at Harvard, but the pattern of previous years usually provides a reliable guide for guessing. One denizen of University Hall, knowledgeable in such matters, has developed what he calls "The Danish Physicist Theory" -a formula for generating a pool of names from which recipients of honoraries might be picked...