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...Theta Puzzle. Last summer two daring theorists, both of them Chinese, challenged parity. Professors Tsung Dao Lee of Columbia and Chen Ning Yang of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton were visiting Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory, whose pleasant summer climate and massive equipment attract vacationing physicists from all over the country. A leading topic at bull sessions, some of them held alfresco on Westhampton Beach, was the "tau-theta puzzle," which many leading physicists have been trying manfully to crack since...
...aircraft engineering jargon, rho is distance, theta is azimuth, i.e., compass bearing to the transmitting station...
...school Craig settled down and studied hard for the first time in his life, and was a better-than-average student. He became president of his two fraternities (Delta Chi, Delta Theta Phi), acquired the maximum number of cauliflower ears as a member of the university's wrestling team. In his last year of law school, he married his high-school sweetheart, Kathryn Heiliger (they have a son and a daughter), and graduated with a bachelor of law degree in 1932. A big campus politician in the same graduating class, but not a close friend of Craig...
Everyone, it seems, is 74 trillion years old, and has been reincarnated over & over in cycles ("spirals"), which have been getting shorter as evolution has speeded up. The current spiral began a mere 35,000 years ago. Everyone has a "theta being," which represents his essential thought-energy and becomes associated with a "MEST" body (another Hubword made from the initials of matter, energy, space, time...
...subject may be disturbed because of unimaginable horrors perpetrated on his theta being in outer space billions of years ago. ("Things are as rough in outer space as they are here," says a devout Hubbardian. "Anything can happen.") If a subject has a pain in his jaw, it may be that in an earlier spiral he was a clam. If this pain is associated with fear of falling, he must have been a clam that was picked up by a bird and dropped on the rocks...