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...state of U. S. psychological opinion on ESP was clarified last week by the results of a questionnaire published in Duke University's Journal of Parapsychology. Physicist Clarence C. Clark of New York University and a collaborator questioned 603 members of the American Psychological Association, got replies from 352. Of these, five agreed with Rhine that ESP was "an established fact." Of the remaining 347 who did not regard it as such, 142 voted it "merely an unknown," 51 "an impossibility," 128 "a remote possibility," 26 "a likely possibility...
...California Institute of Technology a clever, conscientious young physicist named Carl David Anderson found anomalies in cosmic-ray behavior which convinced him that, in the upper air particles were being created which were lighter than protons but heavier than electrons, and both positively and negatively charged (TIME, Nov. 29, 1937). Drs. Jabez Curry Street and Edward Carl Stevenson of Harvard also vouched for the existence of this queer entity. At first there seemed to be no place for it in the physical scheme. Then it was recalled that the Japanese physicist, Yukawa, had postulated the existence of just such...
Meanwhile Walther Heitler, co-author of a famed theory of electron absorption in gases, had called into theoretical being still another particle, the neutretto-similar in mass to the barytron but having no electrical charge. The existence of neutrettos has not been proved. But in Chicago last week Physicist Francis R. Shonka of the University of Chicago reported high-altitude cosmic-ray experiments, in which he juggled various arrangements of Geiger-Muller cosmic-ray counters and selective lead shields, obtained evidence of something which he took to be electrically neutral particles of high penetrating power...
...long ago as 1931, Britain's Physicist Charles Galton Darwin, grandson of the late Charles Darwin, compared physics to "a mother who has given birth to several healthy children, but has not yet recovered sufficiently to know what is going to hap pen next." More closely now than ever does physics resemble a bewildered and bewildering Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe...
Metallurgist L. R. Jackson and Physicist Howard Willis Russell of the Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio) realized that if they could vary the ingredients of an alloy so as to set the Curie point at any desired temperature, they would have a highly sensitive substance for thermostatic control. Experimenting with several mixtures, they finally got what they wanted with an alloy of iron, nickel, chromium, silicon...