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...what seemed almost a counterpoint to Paul's traditionalism, a Catholic prelate last week strongly hinted that the Vatican may be preparing to lift its condemnation of Galileo Galilei, the 17th century Italian physicist whom the Inquisition put under eight years' house arrest for contending that the earth rotates around the sun. During his "examination" in 1633, the aged scientist was scoffed at for challenging the wisdom of Ptolemy, the Egyptian who 1,500 years earlier had asserted that the earth was the center of the universe. And why would Joshua have commanded the sun to stand still...
Isidor Isaac Rabi, SC.D., Nobel Prize physicist...
...practical proof of January slow time has never been possible. How can the slowing of time be measured if all the available timing devices on earth are similarly affected by relativity? Last summer, when the regularly beeping signals of pulsars were first detected coming from outer space, Queens College Physicist Banesh Hoffmann figured that they might supply an answer. Though their source was unknown, the precisely spaced radio pulses coming from light-years away seemed to be the distant clock needed to measure earth time. In a letter to Nature, Hoffmann suggested that the pulse rate of pulsars be taken...
...pulsar signals (which have blipped at a constant frequency since they were discovered) would appear to increase their repetition rates as earth clocks slowed down and decrease them as earth time speeded up. Hoffmann's plan was immediately snapped up by Dror Sadeh, a Tel Aviv University physicist currently attached to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory at Washington...
...bullets" it fires are so small and so light that they can be deflected by a single molecule of air. Even so, the new electron gun devised by Westinghouse Physicist Berthold Schumacher packs so much power that it can shoot its way through the world's hardest rock. It points the way for cheap and relatively simple tools for quarrying stone, mining minerals or even carving tunnels through mountains...