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...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 and Dr. P. ten Brieggencate, Dutch astronomer...
...second in the series of Open Nights at the Harvard College Observatory which are being held under the auspices of the Bond Astronomical Club will be held this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The speaker will be Professor E. S. King, who will speak on the subject "Measuring Starlight...
Titles of the talks to be given at 7.30 o'clock on the various open nights are as follows: Friday, October 17, "Pluto and Eros" by Professor Anne S. Young of Mt. Holyoke College; Tuesday, October 21, "Measuring Starlight" by Professor E. S. King; Thursday, October 23, "Something about Comets" by Leon Campbell; Tuesday, October 28, "More About Nebulae" by Miss Adelaide Ames; Thursday, October 30, "The Interior of a Star" by Professor H. H. Plaskett. The last four speakers are connected with the observatory. The open nights are being held under the auspices of the Bond Astronomical Club...
Smaller Universe. Much starlight is absorbed in space before it reaches the earth. Dr. Piet Van de Kamp, Leander McCormick Observatory, and Dr. Robert Julius Trumpler, Lick Observatory, measured the absorption, concluded that astronomers who have based their measurements of star distances on the assumption that space does not interfere with light, may have overestimated the size of the universe. Cosmic dust, meteors and free-electrons-in-space are possible absorbers of starlight...
...pours into a breakfast cup of coffee, for example. Factors are what the mathematician asks for. He can describe more accurately than the man in the street or the academic scientist what will happen from combinations of those factors. A classic case: Albert Einstein's prediction of starlight bending...