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When Penzias and Wilson first noticed the unexpected background static picked up by their antenna, they considered a number of causes, including the effect of what the German-born Penzias whimsically called "a white dielectric material"-pigeon droppings -in their antenna. But soon they learned from a Princeton group that...
Black holes apparently come in both economy and giant sizes. The gifted British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has shown mathematically that tiny black holes, dating back to the very origins of the universe, could exist. In the Big Bang, the primordial explosion that created the universe some 15 billion to...
Professor Benjamin Vandegrift, of Washington and Lee, sees a whole new breed of middle-management executives who have graduated from the campus activism of the '60s and are now moving into politics to preserve their dreams. New York's Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is almost poetic on the...
God as Astronaut. With cosmic enthusiasm, the Rev. Jack A. Jennings, Presbyterian chaplain at Montana State University, argues that contact with other forms of intelligent life "could turn out to be the most exciting story of the ages." Writing in the liberal Christian Century, Jennings says that if extraterrestrial life...
All but the first two words were lost in the roar of the crowd, that unmistakable, primordial voice of a fight crowd hailing a new king of the most basic sport. But the silence before the verdict had spoken too, for it anticipated the passing of a giant, a unique...