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...Below Zero Sirs: Then there is the story of the old farmer, who, when the family clock by some disarrangement struck 13, remarked that he had never known it to be so late before. It will be new to our physicists that the surface temperature of Saturn is about 750° below zero Centigrade, so far below the accepted determination of the absolute zero at 273° (TIME...
...Recent measurements at Mt. Wilson put Saturn's surface temperature at about 750° below zero centigrade...
...make until he personally had negotiated an imposing series of non-aggression pacts in the lobbies of the Conference (TIME, July 17). Last week Comrade Litvinov was sipping the waters of a famed spa, when Comrade Maisky rose to shout: "The results of this Conference are something less than zero! . . . The only lesson we have learned is that a profound organic disease is eating away at the very vitals of world capitalism. ... He who does not realize this, or who attempts to deny it, lives in a fool's paradise. ... In six weeks the Conference has become so hopelessly...
...group caused a clatter. At Bermuda, Commander Macneil transferred his equipment to a British boat for demonstration behind smoke screens. The Macneil fog-eye, like the Macneil thermoelectric sextant perfected last year (TIME, July 25), functions according to Commander Macneil's thesis that every object not at Absolute Zero (-459.4° F.) radiates heat-like infra-red rays. A two-foot, concave, silvered glass mirror in the fog-eye collects infra-red radiations of objects, focuses the rays on a sensitive thermocouple which translates the infra red rays into faint currents of electricity. A compact amplifier which Physicist Edward...
...began wrenching the molecules with a huge magnet which University of California owns. Liquid helium absorbed and withdrew the magnetically generated heat. At -459.1° Professor Giauque was stopped, regretting that he could not stride the stupendously difficult little step of .3° which would carry him to Absolute Zero where substances should retain no more heat, where molecular activity should completely cease. where all things should be coldly inert. But Absolute Zero must be unattainable on earth except in a perfect vacuum, for where there is substance there must be heat absorbed from radiations of the Sun or other...