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First postulated in 1939 by Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and Hartland Snyder, one of his graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley, black holes are the theoretical residue of extremely massive stars whose thermonuclear fuel has been exhausted. As the fires go out, the gases-which have been supported in the shape of a huge, distended globe by heat and radiation -suddenly begin to fall inward toward the star's center of gravity. If the star is massive enough, the imploding gases gather such momentum as they fall that they virtually crush themselves out of existence...
...tiny number of people, leaving the vast majority of Soviet citizens untouched, but the identity of the protesters is significant. They include not only famed artists like Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich but also scientists such as Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet H-bomb, Physicist Pyotr Kapitsa and Geneticist Zhores Medvedev. A mimeographed bimonthly chronicle of dissident events circulates among thousands, perhaps tens of thousands...
Levi-Strauss's theory is that, appearances notwithstanding, the war-painted Indian and the nuclear physicist are as similar as fraternal twins: the human intellect has been operating in the same fundamental pattern since the dawn of society...
...people outright, cause 55,000 premature cancer deaths, and force evacuation of 450,000 people for over one year. An additional 4 million might have to be kept under close surveillance. Damage could exceed $7 billion. Such a peace-time, man-made catastrophe boggles the imagination. And physicist-writer Dr. Ralph Lapp has said he feels "Before the year 2000 it would appear a certainty that we will have a serious accident...
Schuyler's goal is "spiritual formation," explains Director John Solarski, a former physicist. "We put an emphasis on good study, developing a real practical spirit of service, and preparing the boys to be fathers of families." Most of the residents participate in weekly seminars led by Catholic laymen. "We discuss religion and what really matters," says Freshman Jerry Addonizio. "Before Thanksgiving vacation, we talked about how to make your parents happy-when you come in, maybe pick your mother up and swing her around a little...