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Last week in Philadelphia Dr. William Francis Gray Swann, director of the Bartol Research Foundation and able popularizer (The Architecture of the Universe), took a group of distinguished hearers for a ride on the Second Law, got the Universe into an even worse state than Eddington's featureless mass, finally resurrected it. In Dr. Swann's vague soup there was not a particle of matter, all of it having been turned into radiation according to Einstein's sinister little equation, E = MC 2 . His thermodynamic-equilibrium Universe was therefore a vast sea of electromagnetic vibration, nothing more...
...this abyss, Dr. Swann had recourse to modern laboratory experiments which show radiation transformed back into matter. Every physicist under 35, he declared, would agree with him that such demonstrations are valid. What apparently happens is that the quantum of radiation, scoring a hit on an atomic nucleus, vanishes and gives birth to an electron and a positron-i.e., particles of matter. The quantum of radiation is "mathematically irritated" by the atomic nucleus into giving up its existence. Here Dr. Swann ran into the difficulty that in his sea of radiation there would be no atomic nuclei to provide...
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...POPULAR PRACTICE OF FRAUD- T. Swann Harding-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Examination of fraud in U. S. food, drugs, cosmetics, real estate...
...Lord Privy Seal and Conservative Party Leader Mr. Stanley Baldwin as the Empire's acting Premier (TIME, July 2). With Miss Ishbel MacDonald, faithful daughter and housekeeper, the Prime Minister sails this week aboard the Duchess of Richmond from Liverpool to vacation in Canada. According to Dr. L. A. Swann, a London eye specialist attending the American Optometric congress in Toronto last week, "Degeneration of the eye has set in. Both the Prime Minister's eyes have been attacked by glaucoma. Because the eye is unable to throw off its natural fluids it becomes hard through tension. Blindness may result...