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Furthermore, tutorial for credit does not offer every capable student desiring to do independent work the same opportunities as would free study under the course reduction program. The physicist who would like to take time out to study a certain literary epoch, or the English major who might want to do a project outside his field cannot study in his own department's tutorial. Tutorial for credit is, also, essentially a graded course, and the student may feel less free to explore interesting sidelines to his work if he feels pressure to earn a high grade...
...about the nature of matter gets the better of him. Democritus conceived matter as only a whirl of tiny, indivisible units called atoms. Plato disagreed, saw it as a symmetrical expression of mathematical relations between five basic structures. Then came the theory of light radiating in continuous waves. German Physicist Max Planck overturned that in 1900; he said energy comes in discontinuous particles-or quanta-and Einstein followed him with the idea that light can be thought of as both particle and wave...
Last week two impressive efforts toward the definitive statement of harmony were announced. In West Berlin, before a meeting of scientists that honored the late Max Planck's 100th birth date, German Physicist Werner Heisenberg, 56, reported that he is prepared to make "a suggestion for the basic equation of matter." In Manhattan, before a meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences, German-born Dr. John Grebe, 58, director of Dow Chemical Co.'s nuclear, research, proposed "a periodic table for fundamental particles" that might help "explain the material of the universe...
Last week, in the British publication, Nature, Florida State University Physicist Philip J. Wyatt suggested one possible clue: "Of the many craters on the earth known to have been produced by fallen meteors, a few have left no signs of the meteor which caused them, apart from the huge holes created in the earth's crust." Could antimatter possibly have been involved? If so, says Wyatt, "no traces of the meteors would remain, due to the annihilation process." Best example is the huge meteor that blazed over southern Russia on the morning of June 30, 1908. Minutes later...
...Physicist Wyatt suggests another search at the site for short-lived radioisotopes, produced by intense gamma radiation, which could prove the point. One theoretical flaw in the argument is that an antimatter meteor ought to explode shortly after whizzing into the earth's atmosphere. Moreover, anti-gravity may be a property of antimatter. Unlike other meteors, which fall into the earth's gravitational field, an antimatter meteor would be repelled. But if antimatter does not have antigravity, an antimatter meteor - if big enough to survive the annihilation of its surface - might hit the earth...