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Neither the "steady-state" nor "expanding" universe theory fully satisfies Swedish Physicist Hannes Alfven. What bothers him is that both ignore the existence of antimatter. "It seems logically unsatisfactory," writes Alfvén in the current Reviews of Modern Physics, "that cosmological theories should be based on the assumption that the universe contains only matter." Recent subatomic-physics research has disclosed the existence of an antiparticle for every particle of ordinary matter, he says, thus there is every reason to assume that half the celestial objects in our universe are made of antimatter...
...entice top athletes to Seattle had got Washington's all-too-famous football team kicked out of the Pacific Coast Conference. A loyalty-oath requirement imposed by the legislature was demoralizing the teachers and scaring off bright recruits to the faculty; such was the state of timidity that Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer had been banned from a campus appearance. Nor had the school's topside support always been wholly inspiring: the president of the Board of Regents at one time was Dave Beck, who later went to prison for tax evasion...
...contract for development of an advanced Zeus anti-missile missile, and 3) promised a decision within 90 days on whether to begin production of an anti-missile system that could cost between $7 and $20 billion. The department also took on a new Air Force secretary, New York-born Physicist Harold Brown, 38, who succeeds retiring Eugene Zuckert. A brilliant McNamara protege who has been directing the Pentagon's research and engineering program, Brown is reputed to be the one man who can stump the boss...
...building up a barrier against seawater intrusion. Since agriculture is Israel's heaviest user of water, Israeli scientists are systematically searching for the answer to a question that has plagued farmers throughout history: How much water does each crop actually need? Using radioactive tracer materials, American-born Soil Physicist Daniel Hillel is keeping track of irrigation water as it enters the fields and as it escapes through evaporation or plant transpiration. He radiates neutrons into the soil near plant roots and measures the results: the more water in the soil, the slower the neutrons move. He shoots leaves with...
...HIGH-INTENSITY WAR uses the most modern military technology. Its firepower is delivered largely by missiles, aircraft and missile-armed submarines. All of the knockout punch is thermonuclear and aimed by the most advanced intelligence and command techniques, undoubtedly including spy satellites and pushbuttons. It sounds like Armageddon Physicist Herman Kahn in his current Clausewitzian study, On Escalation: Metaphors and Scenarios, argues that high-intensity war has a rationale. He identifies 44 stages of escalation, ranging from "Ostensible Crisis," in which no bridges are burned (Rung 1), through "Constrained Force-Reduction Salvo against weak links at the outbreak...