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Forgotten Potato. He has aid. On one program he interviews Astronomer Harlow Shapley of Harvard and Physicist Philip Morrison of Cornell, expertly drawing both men into areas of their field that cannot help but fascinate laymen. Morrison thinks Shapley is hopelessly conservative when he says that there must be 100 million places in the universe that could support life. Morrison thinks there must be 100 million such places right here in our own galaxy. Shapley, for his part, seems to think the earth is a small and forgotten potato anyway. "On this little planet around a run-of-the-mill...
Wisdom (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). Conversation with Astronomer Harlow Shapley...
...brand-new magazine is on sale this week on Russia's newsstands. Title: Science and Religion. Editorial slant: religion ridiculed in village-atheist terms, scientists chided for any signs of backsliding from faithlessness. (One author accuses leftish U.S. Astronomer Harlow Shapley of attempting to reconcile God and the expanding universe, advises him: "Your hopes are vain, Professor Shapley!") The magazine's lead article is by Britain's spry old Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand Russell, 87, who asks: "Has religion made a useful contribution to civilization?" His answer: No, except for helping to establish the calendar and inducing...
These "Lilliputian stars" do not glow like regular stars; the pressure and temperature inside them are not high enough to support the thermonuclear reactions that keep stars hot. But they need not be cold. "The heat to support life," said Shapley, "would come from their interiors, and they would not be dependent on a sun as we are. In such bodies, radioactive thorium or potassium might provide a source of energy...
...Shapley does not know how many such bodies exist in the Milky Way galaxy. They cannot be seen with the biggest telescopes because they give off no visible light, only a little infrared. But he suspects they may be even more numerous than visible stars...