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...size of the finite universe is dependent upon matter. Abbé Lemaître, Belgian mathematician, investigated Einstein's universe, found that it would be unstable, would necessarily either expand to infinity or contract to a point. Immediately astronomers looked at the stars, measured the amount of spectral shift in starlight (the Doppler effect). They found most starlight shifted towards the red end of the spectrum, interpreted it to mean movement away from the earth (TIME, Oct. 6), concluded that material bodies were spreading, expanding universal boundaries. Dr. Fritz Zwicky of California Institute of Technology...
...longer wave lengths) were moving away from the earth, the blue stars (shorter wave lengths) were moving toward the earth.? Last week. Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble, Mount Wilson Observatory astronomer, told visiting members of the National Academy of Sciences that he had rechecked this phenomenon of the spectral shift through the Mount Wilson telescope which can see farther into space than any other telescope in the world. Dr. Hubble analyzed 34 nebulae carefully by means of a spectroscope which breaks up a ray of light, shows the different colors of the spectrum which compound it. He found with...
Sued. Princess Serge (Pola Negri) Mdivani, famed cinemactress: for $5.000; by Beltran Masses, Spanish painter; in Paris. Senor Masses alleged that Pola Negri had ordered a $5,000 portrait of herself, that she had specified a background to contain a dim, spectral Rudolph Valentino, that when the portrait was finished she refused to pay. Pola Negri said Senor Masses had begged for permission to paint her. He refused her offer to settle...
...divine guidance, to a lonely hill near the village of Manchester, N. Y., where he discovered numerous engraved and lettered plates of gold in a cachet of stone. Annually for four years he returned to look at the plates; then they were delivered to him by his spectral visitor. In 1830 there was first published The Book of Mormon, purporting to be a translation of the plates accomplished with divinely acquired erudition by humble Joseph Smith, 25. That year the Mormon Church, based upon the revelations of this book, was established in a farmhouse in Fayette, N. Y., and Joseph...
Thunder in the Air. The ghost of a British soldier returns after ten years to twist the hearts of his parents and one-time fiancee. This spectral drama by Robins Millar, Glasgow journalist, may interest adherents of spiritualism; earthier critics may yawn...