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...dropped cannonballs of different sizes and found that they all hit the ground at the same time. He thus convinced the world--and in the years to come, Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein as well--that in a vacuum all objects, regardless of mass, fall at the same speed. Galileo's work went unchallenged until last week, when Purdue University Physics Professor Ephraim Fischbach, three of his graduate students and S.H. Aronson, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, reported discerning a previously unknown force that causes objects of different masses to fall at different rates...
...columnists are fifth columnists. Prominent for a moment, they rapidly go out of view, but the influence stays, and the impulse to contemplate abides. It's not a career deep down; it is a protest against being overwhelmed by the speed of things, against letting the world get away from us. When Dickens' daughter died, he was in London and his wife in the country; he wrote her a letter telling her at the outset, "You must read this letter very slowly." Joe Kraft died on Jan. 10. You must read his death very slowly. The missing piece...
...Giotto spacecraft and Halley's comet raced toward each other last week at a closing speed of 155,000 m.p.h., the tension at the European Space Agency's control center in Darmstadt, West Germany, became palpable. Images of the cornet, relayed to the center at intervals of four seconds, loomed larger and larger on television screens, finally yielding by far the best look yet at an elongated shape near Halley's heart. It was the comet's nucleus. Giotto Investigator Wolfgang Schmidt, giving a play-by-play description of the images, could not contain his excitement. "It's obvious that...
...worst fears of the international Giotto team, it seemed, had been realized. Fully aware of the dangers of meeting any outsize dust particles at the tremendous speed of encounter but determined to get a closeup look, the scientists had aimed the spacecraft to swoop only 338 miles from Halley's dust-shrouded nucleus. That, according to Roger Bonnet, ESA's director of scientific programs, was like playing Russian roulette: "You may survive, but one shot will kill...
Doing 80 on a long, straight highway through the flatlands was once considered almost a part of the American birthright. But when the oil embargo pinched the U.S. in 1973, high-speed, gas-gulping joyrides looked like something the nation could ill afford. Congress forced the states to impose a 55-m.p.h. limit, and a tradition died. Though lower speeds have saved countless lives and millions of barrels of oil, many road runners hate slow-motion driving. I Can't Drive Fifty-Five, a popular song by Sammy Ha-gar, has become the anthem of speeding scofflaws...