Word: string
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...incredible distances away from the loop. With Witten and Graduate Student Chris Thompson, Ostriker went to work calculating the effects of the waves. "Again and again," he says, "we thought we had found a fatal flaw, that the whole thing was crackers. But we haven't so far." A string loop, it seemed, could theoretically produce an awesome void...
...Strings first popped up unexpectedly in the mathematical models of particle physicists. Right after the big bang, the mathematics suggests, the rapidly cooling cosmos underwent a phase transition, roughly analogous to the sharp change that occurs when water turns into ice. And just as an ice cube is marred by cracks and lines left over from uneven freezing, the universe too might have developed flaws -- in the form of strings. These strings would try to straighten and contract, often whipping about and getting tangled in the process. When a string crossed itself, the resulting loop would pinch off from...
...unraveling Iranian fiasco is the latest in a string of controversies that have called into question the Administration's credibility and competence in foreign affairs. They threaten to dissipate six years of aggressive effort by Reagan to strengthen America's standing in the world. Among the other setbacks to credibility: the disingenuous explanations of the shady connections between the White House and the private network run by former CIA personnel supplying aid to the contras fighting in Nicaragua, the campaign of "disinformation" against Libya proposed by the National Security Council, and Reagan's befuddled and dubious accounts of what...
This year's Ivy title is Yale's first since 1956, ending Columbia's string of seven straight Ancient Eight titles...
...three movements. It predates Nancarrow's dense, mind-boggling, rhythmic experiments in his Mexico City studio with the player piano, which later became his chosen medium of expression. Emotionally stirring, the piece deserves wider currency. And the swooping, sliding, fuzz-toned Purple Haze must be as close as a string quartet is likely to come to playing acid rock at the Fillmore. Jimi was never like this. Can Janis be far behind...