Word: poole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...billiard or pool player or a bowler better than most people can get an understanding of an important physical observation, reported last week by Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, great Indian physicist. Sir Chandrasekhara was scientifically succinct in his announcement. Very few details reached Europe or the Americas. But, according to what he has done in the past and according to the corroborative work of other students, this, simply, is what he said...
...game of pool or billiards or bowling-in-the-alley provides a simple illustration of what this great Indian and his colleagues are saying in the exact phrases of science. Pool is somewhat the best of the three illustrations...
...pool table lie 15 round balls. They are closely packed into an equal-sided triangle, five balls to a side. The pack of balls represents any form of matter you please?a crystal of iron, a tum- bler of water, a flask of gas. The balls are atoms or molecules. They are all wobbling very, very fast, and in every direction. You cannot tell which ball is where at any instant. But you, pretending to be a mathematical physicist like Professor Einstein or Professor Raman, can calculate the average place of the average ball at any instant. That is almost...
...years ago Professor Arthur Holly Compton of the University of Chicago aimed some x-rays at a crystal, that is, a conglomerate of pool balls. If the x-rays were waves, as had been the general conception, the waves would have wriggled between the atoms without displacing them and without being changed by them. It would have been as though a bucket of water had been swished across the pool table baize...
...Refund. Six months ago the management of Transamerica Corp. decided its shares at $13¼ were undervalued, called upon shareholders to contribute funds for a market pool (TIME, Dec. 29). Last week all the money received (said to be $20,000,000) was returned to stockholders, plus interest at 4%. Surprising was the pool's statement that the money had been kept in a bank, never touched. But it was also gratifying word to the pool's contributors, for last week Transamerica shares were at $7 against the year...