Memes with the Watson keyword “Los Alamos”

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The Comet Loss Cone

To understand why comet showers occur, we go back to the Oort Cloud. The theory of comet showers was worked out by Jack Hills, an American physicist now at Los Alamos. He realized that the movements of the comets in the Oort Cloud are not entirely random. Comets in the cloud are generally moving in random directions…

Jan 24, 2015 1

astronomy
astrophysics

Secrecy Led to the Loss of Chinese Technological Achievements

While these state records survive, most of the ancient Chinese literature on astronomy has disappeared. Because astronomy was so state-oriented, so security-bound, and so secret, the old astronomy books have left few traces. By contrast, the early books on mathematics, which were used by merchants, directors of public…

Aug 8, 2013 1

history
progress
science
secrecy
technology