Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State of Shock. Acting on his hunch, Schmidt assumed that the lines he saw were really hydrogen lines. He measured the shift and calculated that 3C 273 was moving away at 15% of the speed of light, or about 28,000 miles per second. This meant, according to Hubble's law, that the quasar must be about 1.5 billion light-years from the earth, instead of being a faint, nearby star - as most astronomers had assumed...
...where Schmidt thought that H-alpha should be, shifted into the infrared. 3C 273 was moving faster than seemed possible; it was farther away than anyone had been prepared to believe, and it was brighter than it should be. Schmidt recalls that he "was in a state of complete shock...
There is obviously no such thing as a safe bobsled run, but there are varying degrees of danger. Nobody has ever been killed on Austria's Igls run, and it was a shock around the famed Ronco course at Cortina, Italy, when Germany's Anton Pensberger crashed to his death during last month's world championships. But the Mount Van Hoevenberg run at Lake Placid, N.Y., is another story. With its 16 low-banked curves, abnormally wide straightaways (which leave all the more room for error) and extra-high speeds (up to 90 m.p.h.), it has long...
Purple Ghosts. The basic problem, generally ignored, is that an unantennaed color set can get no better picture than an unantennaed black-and-white. The fellow grown accustomed to the foibles of his old machine is in for a shock when the "snow" of yesteryear becomes varicolored "confetti," and the old "ghosts" start haunting in green and purple halos. If either form of interference clouded the old black-and-white picture, it will all but eclipse the new color image...
Springs Awakening has now reached an awkward age for a play about emotions: it is too old to have much shock value, but too young to work as a period piece: the maunderings of these German bourgeois and adolescents of 1891 are sometimes too painfully reminiscent of some contemporary drama...