Word: formless
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fated little ballet dancer who could do entrechat six (Nijinski could do ten), she dominates each scene with an almost flawless performance. Every half smile, every sidelong glance, every toss of her head, every movement of her hands makes the supporting cast sink further and further into a vague, formless background. But as for you, Mr. Goldwyn, by decking out Bob T. in that new trick mustache, you've shattered one of our fondest illusions...
...such temperatures hydrogen atoms are whipped up to speeds around 100 miles per second. A hot gob of sun-matter would thus tend to expand and dissipate into a formless cloud. Hopeful theory was that this tendency would be counteracted by rapid cooling in open space...
...binding force that holds atomic nuclei together (and hence keeps the universe from exploding into a monstrous, formless cloud of atomic dust) is a powerful attraction between protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus. Dr. Bethe finds that the transmitter of this force is none other than the mesotron, which seems not to be a permanent part of the nucleus but to appear and disappear as needed. In other words, when a nuclear proton wants to transfer a package of energy to another proton or to a neutron, it calls into existence a mesotron, which does the job and then...