Tag Archives: Niels Bohr

1939: atomic age stirrings

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Dave

In 1939 the United States was on the threshold of a new era, but to the experts the future looked like a fourteen ton typewriter…In the United States at the time of the New York World’s Fair, with its theme … Continue reading →

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an electron: a may, a may and a not

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Dave

…An electron can pass from the orbit of one nucelus to another’s without passing through space between. It occupies no particular position in space when its velocity is under observation; when its location is fixed, its speed is indeterminate. At … Continue reading →

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breeding cosmic pessimism: may be or not be

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Dave

Parapsychological research. Riding Apollo 14 between earth and moon, astronaut Edgar Mitchell shuffled a pack of oddly marked cards and concentrated on flashing mental images of them to four people on the home planet. Sometimes shattering consequences can flow from … Continue reading →

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