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After this performance, the West German government did an about-face. Gerhard Schröder, Adenauer's Minister of Interior, an ex-Nazi who is John's old boss, had stoutly defended him and offered $119,000 reward for information about John's "abduction." Now he flatly called him a traitor. Schröder also did his best to free the Adenauer government of any blame: the British, he said, had forced John's appointment as West Germany's security chief after rejecting...
...Mystery of Matter. Matter is common stuff, but the scientists do not know what matter is. The more they dig into the problem, the more confused they get. Dr. Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prizewinner in physics, points out that light can behave as waves and also as particles. So can electrons, protons and larger chunks of matter...
...limited volume of gas, say helium," he admits, "can be thought of either as a collection of many helium atoms or as a superposition of elementary wave trains of matter waves." By the same kind of reasoning, a desk, a battleship, or even Dr. Schrödinger himself may be merely a fuss kicked up by conflicting waves...
...Schrödinger is not sure of even this wild idea. He admits that neither he nor anyone else can answer the question, "What is matter...
...Even Schrödinger seemed not entirely comfortable with it yet. "I believe I am right," he announced. "I shall look an awful fool if I am wrong...