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October 1999

Volume 52, Issue 10

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Jordan, Pauli, Politics, Brecht, and a Variable Gravitational Constant

Engelbert L. Schucking
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Pascual Jordan was one of the great theoretical physicists of the century. But his attempt to modify general relativity with a variable gravitational constant did nothing to enhance his reputation. Nor did his conspicuous membership in the Nazi Party.

Rediscovering Mars

Raymond Ladbury
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After 20 years of pondering the results of the first wave of Mars exploration, researchers are using some of the latest remote sensing techniques to bring the Red Planet into sharper focus.

Gravitational Radiation and the Validity of General Relativity

Clifford M. Will
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Observing the speed, polarization, and back influence of gravitational waves would subject Einstein's theory to new tests.

LIGO and the Detection of Gravitational Waves

Barry C. Barish and Rainer Weiss
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Large detectors on opposite sides of the country are about to start monitoring the cosmos for the gravitational waves that general relativity tells us should be emanating from catastrophic astrophysical events.
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Physics Update

Phillip F. Schewe and Stephen G. Benka
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The Science Wars Continue, with Debate on ‘Fashionable Nonsense’

Jean Bricmont, Alan Sokal, Simon C. Moss, Hector J. Sussmann, Dan T. Abell, Jonathan Katz, and David Mermin
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Canada Lacks Science Equipment, Funding

Bernard Terreault
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More on Approaches to Teaching Physics

Kenneth A. Bruffee, Edward F. Redish, and Richard N. Steinberg
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The Fermionic Cousin of Bose–Einstein Condensate Makes its Debut

Barbara Goss Levi
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Measurements on an ultracold gas of fermionic atoms indicate that its lowest energy levels are filling up as the temperature is lowered.

Femtosecond Laser Excites Novel Surface Chemistry

Charles Day
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Surface reactions, such as corrosion and catalysis, not only underlie the rusting and antipollution processes in cars, they also provide a useful arena for investigating the intricacies of atomic and molecular physics.

Going for the Gold: First Collisions at RHIC are Set for December

Gloria B. Lubkin
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When RHIC experimenters collide gold ions to produce energy densities ten times higher than in ordinary nuclear matter, they hope to observe the formation of a quark‐gluon plasma.

Single Microwave Photons Can Be Measured Nondestructively

Richard Fitzgerald
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Individual atoms passing through a microwave cavity can sense whether it contains zero photons or one—and leave the photon number unchanged.

Long X‐Ray Observation Probes Black Hole Infall

Charles Day
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No Kid Should Know that Much About...

Henry J. Frisch
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When Things Start to Think and the Nature of Matheinatical Modeling

Neil Gershenfeld and Michael Marder, Reviewer
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Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils

J. William Schopf and Robert M. Hazen, Reviewer
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Self‐Organized Criticality: Emergent Complex Behavior in Physical and Biological Systems

Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen and Marcelo O. Magnasco, Reviewer
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Classical Electrodynamics

Walter Greiner and Harvey S. Picker, Reviewer
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Asymptotic Theory of Separated Flows

Vladimir V. Sychev, Anatoly I. Ruban, Victor V. Sychev, Georgi L. Korolev, and Marvin E. Goldstein
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New Books

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Focus on Vacuum Technology

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Parisi Honored with 1999 Dirac Medal

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AGU Recognizes Contributions to Geosciences

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In Brief

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Alan Fowler, Charles H. Bennet, Seymour P. Keller, and Yosef Imry
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Peter Alden Franken

Hyatt Gibbs, Pierre Meystre, and Ewan Wright
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William Phelps Allis

Abraham Bers and Hermann A. Haus
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Robert Sears Jr

Larry D. Kirkpatrick, Bernard V. Khoury, and Howard G. Voss
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Sandia Bets on Mega‐Microsystems Facility, Holds off on Pulsed Power

Toni Feder
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Scientists’ Counsel Counts in Congress

Audrey T. Leath
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Search for Extraterrestrials is this Planet's Largest Computing Project

Toni Feder
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More US Students Take High School Physics

Jean Kumagai
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In Brief

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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Calendar

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