Word: planeters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...should receive a few more rays than the back of the planet, just as a child riding a carousel in the rain should be struck by more drops in front than in back. This small daily variation in the cosmic rays has actually been observed, so Dr. Compton agrees they must come from the remotest depths of space. What is their scientific importance? 1) A cosmic ray impact led to the discovery of the positive electron, a fundamental particle of matter. 2) The geographic distribution of the rays facilitates study of Earth's magnetic field. 3) For laboratory work...
...down "corruption, laissez-faire and boozy optimism" with a stern official hand. Says Biographer Bryant: "By his precept and example Pepys was to transform an inchoate and ill-directed service into the most enduring, exact and potent instrument of force seen on this disorderly planet since the days of Imperial Rome...
...Never before on this planet of ours has there been so thorough a survey of Chinese...
...Through Space & Time (TIME, Nov. 19. 1934) Sir James showed how the moon, spiraling gradually closer to Earth, must eventually be broken up by Earth's gravitation. One of Jupiter's little satellites, for example, is so close to that big planet's gravitational "danger zone" that it is egg-shaped. Sir James made it clear last week that the lunar approach will be no harmless display for earthlings...
...their reality is not questioned, then it seems at least possible that there was once life on the planet. In the past there was probably a greater abundance of oxygen, the only factor that forbids the present existence of life