Within a hair's breadth WHAT happens to gravity over tiny distances? Using delicate apparatus to measure gravitational forces over just a tenth of a millimetre, the shortest distance ever, a team of physicists has found that, as far as they can tell, the forces are roughly as Newton's laws predict. The result narrows down the possible nature of hidden … 51¶¯Âþ
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Storm Chasers by David Toomey Storm Chasers by David Toomey, W. W. Norton, $25.95/£19.95, ISBN 0393020002 Reviewed by Roy Herbert IN THE 1950s there were only limited methods of measuring the intensity and direction of the hurricanes that regularly appeared from the Caribbean and tore an all-destroying path up the east coast of America. To forecast their routes and strength … Books & Arts
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