Word: spectra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planets, the earth's neighbors, than they do about far-distant stars. The reason is that stars shine in their own light, revealing much about themselves to astronomers' spectroscopes. The solar system's planets are visible only in the reflected light of the sun. Their spectra carry little firm information, and the details that can be seen on their surfaces are clear enough to excite but too vague to satisfy human curiosity...
...chemistry William A. Klemperer '50 is a expert on infra-red spectra. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California. Also appointed was Francis G. A. Stone, who is concerned with inorganic chemistry and molecular structure. He is engaged in research with Eugene G. Rochow, professor of Chemistry...
...York glitterati. There is a highbrow editor of a popular magazine who is keen on starting a new literary journal and wants Tom to round up a staff of "topnotchers" and decorated veterans from the little magazine wars ("You did publish Holloway's first stuff in Spectra, didn't you?"). There is Tom's cousin George, a would-be painter turned psychoanalyst, and George's wife, whose mind is an ambush out of which Freud continually jumps ("Can't the Cross be a phallic symbol?"). All the "malefactors" are somewhat mystified by one of their...
After the death of Hubble in 1953, his partner, M. L. Humason, kept observing more distant galaxies. In all their spectra he found the "red shift,"- which shows that they are all moving away from the earth and from one another. The most distant ones observed are apparently rushing away at 134 million miles an hour, about one-fifth of the speed of light. Unless some new theory can account for the red shift, cosmologists will have to get along with the expanding universe...
...interplanetary language develops, whole new topics of conversation will gradually open up. The subject of chemistry can be broached through the numerical properties of the spectra of stars. When the language can cope with anatomy, earthlings will learn what the Neighbors look like. At last, when interplanetary chatter becomes commonplace, individual humans should be able to make friends with individual Martians. They can compare their rhythms of life and death. They can even compare their respective intelligence by playing "celestial chess" across the emptiness of space...