Word: space
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Early last week the bright face of the sun showed even brighter spots, each of them a gigantic explosion tossing gas and magnetism deep into space. Blasts of charged particles crossed millions of miles of space and smashed into the earth's magnetic field. In each case there was no warning of the approaching storm; it hit the earth with a sharp initial pulse, lasting about a minute and followed by violent fluctuations...
...experiment goes back to 1953, when British Cosmologist Thomas Gold suggested that the initial pulse from the sun might be a shock wave analogous to the shock wave produced in air by a plane breaking through the sound barrier. Professor Gold knew that gas in interplanetary space is too thin to carry ordinary shock waves, which propagate by gas molecules bumping against each other. But solar shock waves, he argued, are different. They are caused by solar magnetic fields expanding suddenly into space and pushing ionized gas ahead of them. "It is a bit like a weather front," he explains...
...coming from the sun. But the difference in speed is easily accounted for by the fact that the gas in the tube is not nearly so thin as interplanetary gas. Such waves may be among the disturbances that instruments in the moon-probe rocket Pioneer IV detected deep in space, 10,000 miles beyond the outermost limit of the Van Allen radiation. Dr. Kantrowitz suspects that his newly discovered waves may prove a serious threat to interplanetary travelers of the future...
...remain so. The curving lips of the interior overhangs make them fairly safe for children. There is visual privacy, though not the privacy that doors afford. The kitchen is to be built into one of the supporting pillars beneath. Radiant heating will keep the house snug. Storage space exists in abundance between the interior and exterior shells of the building...
THERE is no substitute for actuality, yet art books can JL do wonders in bringing home to space-bound men impossibly far realms of art. This spring, with the publication of Japan: Ancient Buddhist Paintings, the New York Graphic Society offered U.S. readers 32 color reproductions of masterpieces of Japanese religious art that are rolled up in scrolls, tucked away in mountain monasteries or otherwise unavailable to all but the most determined travelers. Like all too many art books, Japan is expensive ($18), and its text contributes little or nothing to the pictures...