Show F FREAKS REA K Sand and 0 ODDITIES D D 1 TIE S SI I IN N SCIENCE SCIENCE S C I ENe ENE NEWS NEWS- W S- S 71 An atom which acts as Its own 0 11 stop watch has hasU HAn U J been used been used to measure a a. time in Interval of a millionth hundred of a second An atom which is emitting light Is In an excited or high energy state How long on the average the atoms atom's ex excitement excitement ex- ex continues has been measured by this Ingenious ingenious In Ingenious in- in genious new microscopic timer The light emit ting helium atom Itself acts as the moving hand of the wat watch h In these experiments Electrons moving moving ing with properly chosen speeds strike the helium atoms and make them excited At the same time however they knock an electron off the atom and thus give it an electric charge An electric force applied to the group of excited ex excited ex- ex cited atoms therefore pulls the charged atoms away from the place in which they had been struck by the electrons As the atom is still emitting light tl tills this s electric deflection of the light emitting atom can be accurately recorded on a photographic plate H 71 J Extensive researching of the thc heavens for supposed supposed sup sup- U posed Planet P. P undertaken by Professor at the Harvard observatory station station station sta sta- tion near South Africa last year ear was unfruitful Professor W. W H. H Picker Pickering ng has reported reported re reported re- re ported from hs his private observatory at Mandeville Jamaica The existence of an unknown Planet P Pis Pis Pis is upheld by Professor Pickering on the basis of computations made by him Another area of the sky will wUl be searched during the coming summer in the hope of finding the supposed planet w 4 e 0 eNo J No indication of an epidemic of Influenza appears appears ap- ap apU ap ap- U pears in the reports of state health officers to the U. U S. S public health service The U. U S. S public health service has not been officially notified no no- tilled of any Influenza epidemic in England al although although although al- al though unofficial reports of one have come to this country |