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...Reverse matter" was first proposed last year as a concept of theoretical physics by Physicist Vladimir Rojansky of Union College. Rojansky suggested that some stars may be made of these reversed atoms...
Meeting at Harvard Observatory, a small group of leading U.S. astronomers agreed last week that a Swedish physicist, Bengt Edlen, had just thrown a good deal of light on the sun. It concerned the nature of the sun's corona-its turbulent halo of incandescent gases...
...Physicist Edlen demonstrated that the corona probably consists mostly of heavier elements like iron, calcium, nickel. This was a big surprise to astronomers. Surprise No. 2 was Edlen's calculation that this high excitation which causes such heavy atoms to give off new spectrum lines must indicate coronal temperatures...
Scientists had formerly assumed the corona to be scarcely hotter than the sun's surface, a mere 10,000° F. Physicist Edlen was so astonished by his own conclusions that he kept them secret for two years while he cleared up all reasonable doubts...
Science defends itself. Like the New York Daily News's Cartoonist Clarence Daniel Batchelor, thoughtful folk often brood on science's responsibility for the ruin and slaughter of technological warfare. Blame cannot be fixed. As Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan has pointed out, "Explosives and fertilizers are basically the same." Like Tartaglia, who founded the science of ballistics in the 16th Century, scientists in Britain and the U.S. may sometime feel their work on instruments of death to be "a thing blameworthy, shameful and barbarous, worthy of severe punishment before God and man." But Tartaglia consoled himself with...