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...from Mercury, the signals, which travel at the speed of light, had to pass close to the sun. During these passages, according to the Einstein equations, solar gravity should have actually slowed them down, lengthening their 23-minute round-trip time to Mercury by one five-thousandth of a second...
...atmosphere, which absorbs X rays before they reach the earth, the rocket detected X-radiation from quasar 3C 273, from a giant elliptical galaxy called M 87, and from three locations in the sky where no celestial objects are visible. The recorded radiation from the quasar was only one-thousandth as great as that from a starlike object called Sco XR-1-which appears to be the brightest X-ray emitter in the sky (TIME, Sept. 16). But 3C 273 is 1.5 billion light-years away, compared with only 500 light-years for Sco XR-1. The quasar...
...pill" is a miraculous tablet that contains as little as one thirty-thousandth of an ounce of chemical. It costs 11? to manufacture; a month's supply now sells for $2.00 retail. It is little more trouble to take on schedule than a daily vitamin. Yet in a mere six years it has changed and liberated the sex and family life of a large and still growing segment of the U.S. population: eventually, it promises to do the same for much of the world...
...tube could quickly produce high temperatures by generating electric currents in the walls of the tube. To prevent serious heat damage, the electrons were fired in very short bursts. Stanford's SLAC is designed to fire electrons in millionth-of-a-second bursts separated by intervals of a thousandth of a second...
...does not advance science very much." Men who feel the same way have insisted for years that manned-space probes cost literally 100 times as much as unmanned, and are not worth it. Says Britain's eminent Astronomer Fred Hoyle: "What has been accomplished is not worth a thousandth part of what has been spent...