Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After each major act of Joseph Stalin's regime, a vast cheering throng swells into the Red Square, carrying aloft on long poles horrid caricatures of the enemies of Bolshevism, handsome likenesses of its Dictator. At 15° below zero last week, thousands of prospective demonstrators stood shuffling, stamping and blowing on their hands in narrow side streets and alleys adjoining the Kremlin Fortress in which J. Stalin lives, and the Red Square. They were all ready to march in and cheer as soon as the Soviet Supreme Court should hand down its batch of death sentences...
Heat is the energy of motion of tiny particles, the vigorous dance of the atoms and molecules that constitute matter. When matter is chilled, the dance becomes torpid. At Absolute Zero ( -273.13 degrees C.) it would cease altogether. Scientists have not attained and do not expect to attain absolute Absolute Zero, but by a laborious process which involves repeated magnetization and demagnetization they have chilled certain salts to .0002 of one degree above Absolute Zero (TIME...
...through the maze of atoms, and they are impeded by the atomic dance. If the conductor is progressively chilled, the resistance to the current should fall off as the atomic dance slows down. In theory, the resistance should diminish in a smooth curve until it vanishes entirely at Absolute Zero, where the electrons would encounter no more opposition than would an army marching through the serried ranks of an enemy frozen stockstill. In practice, the resistance does fall in a smooth curve down to one or two degrees above Absolute Zero where it vanishes abruptly although some slight heat...
...occurs before the atomic dance has entirely stopped. At ordinary temperatures the electrons are dispersed and disorganized by the vibration and must make their way alone. But, in the view of Professor John Clarke Slater, head of M. I. T.'s physics department, in the neighborhood of Absolute Zero the atomic interference is so feeble that electrons may combine in large swarms and travel along together like mountain climbers tied together by a rope. By virtue of this "co-operation," the faint show of opposition that might impede one electron impedes the swarm not at all, and electrical resistance...
...glass, racing by to the singing of the wind in your rigging and the crisp cutting sound of the sharp-bladed runners. You put your nose down into your muffler to catch a warm breath-the wind has you gasping and your cheeks feel shaved by the Z in Zero. Hard into the tall sail overhead smashes a fresh gust and up, up come your shoulders as the boat keels over with one runner high off the ice, ripping along at 40 m.p.h...