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...Easy Popper. Pre-seasoned popcorn, in an aluminum-foil package that can be popped by putting the pan-shaped container on the stove, has been put on the market by Top Pop Products Co. of Detroit and Taylor-Reed Corp. of Glenbrook, Conn. The foil expands as the corn pops, keeps the popped corn hot for an hour. Price...
...bizarre predictions of Einstein's General Relativity is that time runs more slowly in a strong gravitational field. The effect is slight and hard to detect but Astronomer Daniel Popper of U.C.L.A. believes that he has caught time in the act of running slow...
...Popper studied the faint "white dwarf" star, 40 Eridani B, which is 40% as heavy as the sun but only about as big as Mars. Its high concentration of mass forms a powerful gravitational field at the star's surface, where its light comes from. Besides, 40 Eridani B is a member of a double-star system, which allows its speed to be measured accurately...
After analyzing 37 spectrograms of his star's light, Dr. Popper found that its wave lengths are, as he had hoped, slightly longer than is normal. This meant that white-dwarf time really does run slow, just as Einstein predicted. The difference is not much. A man living on 40 Eridani B would fall behind by about six earthly seconds...
When an Army paratrooper steps out into space, he knows that the sudden blossoming of his parachute will rattle his bones, strain his joints, and for a breathless moment, make him feel like the popper on a bull whip. At worst, an opening shock snaps a paratrooper so violently that he blacks out, sometimes even causes heavy objects such as hand grenades to burst right through the pockets of his sturdy jump suit...