Word: cosmically
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According to Drs. Libby and Grosse, the tritium now on earth was formed recently by cosmic rays from outer space hitting and smashing nitrogen atoms in the upper atmosphere. During the confusion, some protons knocked out of the nitrogen make off with two neutrons in attendance. The threesomes pick up electrons and become tritium atoms. Eventually they join with oxygen, form water molecules and fall to earth in the rain...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it is pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...Denverites on hand, Emperor Hoyt formally opens his new court-a gleaming $6,000,000 plant in downtown Denver. The 5,000 guests will wash down Rocky Mountain trout with a river of bourbon, admire the electrically heated sidewalks (guaranteed to melt snow in a jiffy), and watch as cosmic rays start the giant new presses rolling off copies of the Post...
...fully fueled. The Viking is 45 ft. long, only 2½ ft. in diameter, and weighs only 11,000 lbs. According to an observer on board the Norton Sound, the rocket launched from the ship carried a 1,000-lb. payload of instruments for studying high-altitude cosmic rays. It might have carried a bomb (perhaps a lightweight-model atom bomb...
Last week Dr. Carl David Anderson of CalTech showed the American Physical Society at Washington a series of cosmic ray pictures providing real evidence that the new particles really do exist. The pictures were made on California's 11,000-ft. White Mountain by a CalTech team working with a "cloud chamber," which records the tracks of charged particles...