Word: ters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What existed before the "beginning" when the universe exploded? Ter Haar is careful not to answer this biggest question of all. He says merely that "the present epoch" started with the great blowup. What went before he does not claim to know...
...Scientific Monthly, Dutch-born Astronomer D. Ter Haar of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, gives a roundup of evidence in support of the catastrophic theory. Ter Haar reasons that if the universe was formed at a single time, many objects in it should have roughly the same age. Then he gathers a collection of age estimates to see how closely they agree...
...that the earth and the moon became partners when the solar system was formed, the age of the earth-moon combination is also the age of the solar system. Because of the drag of the tides, the moon is slowly moving away from the earth. The best estimate, says Ter Haar, is that it took the moon two to four billion years to reach its present distance. This gives the age of the earth-moon partnership, and therefore the age of the solar system: two to four billion years...
...Ter Haar's figures point to a kind of "beginning" not more than five billion years ago. They afford, he says, "one of the strongest arguments against the hypothesis of continuous creation...
...press, quizzically quoting a newspaper article that said "only Hu Shih enjoys freedom of speech in free China." But he praised the present freedom of discussion in For mosa's Legislative Yuan (assembly), citing that the Sino-Japanese peace treaty had been passed only after Foreign Minis ter George Yeh had to put in 19 appear ances before Yuan committees...