Word: interactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system also permits each operator to "interact" with the computer while his data is being processed. Errors in the computer's instructions may be quickly spotted and corrected. In traditional computers, errors cannot be detected until the results have been transcribed from magnetic tape onto printed forms several hours after the calculations have been completed...
...experiment will generate no atomic blast, but if it pays off it may have an explosive impact on the new and booming subscience of neutrino physics. Neutrinos are littleknown particles that have no mass of their own and no electric charge. They have nothing much except energy; they interact hardly at all with known kinds of matter. They are generated copiously in the centers of stars, and they move with the speed of light as they slip out into space and pass right through any stars they happen to hit. It has been calculated that a stream of neutrinos could...
...Ortega y Gasset felt when he shuddered about "mass man." Yet, sheer numbers are an overwhelming factor in the individual's existence. Demographers calculate that, given a U.S. population density of ten people per square mile in the mid-19th century, each American inside a ten-mile radius could "interact" with about 3,000 others. But the density in the U.S. today is 60 people per square mile, making possible interaction with nearly 20,000 (in cities the figure rises into the millions...
...make his point clear, Goodman narrated two chapters of his anecdotal novel about life in Hoboken. The first describes a high school English teacher whose sex life, Ph.D. thesis, housing problems, and concern for juvenile delinquency are all of equal importance to him, and all interact...
...single, very large dish. Since a telescope's resolution is proportionate to its width, the double antenna has a far narrower beam than a single dish. Even finer resolution is obtained by long, rocking metal troughs that gather radio waves and focus them so that they interact with waves gathered by another antenna running at right angles to the first. In Australia, and at Cambridge University. England, such intricate apparatus record information on punched tape and feed it into electronic computers for analysis. They have an effective beam so slender that it can distinguish objects many billion light-years...