Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-23 | Page 24 | Ballons Will be Used in Automatic Wear Reports

Balloons Will Be Used in Automatic Weather Reports Science Also on Threshold of Expanding Universe to Eight Times Present Present Present Pres Pres- ent Size By B. B F. F COLTON Associated Tress Press s Science Writer CHICAGO June 23 23 Scientists Scientists today today to today to- to day pictured man on the threshold of scientific advances ranging from weather forecasts automatically automatically auto auto- from thousands of ot small balloons high in the sk sky to expanding the known universe to eight times Umes its Us present size The weather forecaster of th the fu future future fu- fu ture probably will make his prophecies cies of rain or shine on the thc basis of or vast numbers of automatic weather reports coming in continuously from high above the earth Dr Jakob Bjerknes knes of Bergen Norway told the American Association for or the Advancement Advancement Advancement Ad Ad- of Science The time when astronomers will explore into now unknown reaches of or space seems even nearer for the he largest largest largest larg larg- est telescope cope mirror ever made inches In diameter is to be c cast within with with- in a few days it was by Dr Walter S. S Adams director of the Mount Wilson observatory Califor Califor- nia The weather reporting balloons already already al already al- al ready are being used experimentally experiment They carry thermometers barometers and ana other instruments to record conditions conditions con con- in the upper air and the records records rec rec- are ed to earth in code by an automatic sending device NEED CALCULATORS The data made available by the balloons balloons bal bal- loons and other weather testing devices devices de de- vices o of the future Dr Bjerknes said will be so complex and vast that as many as human calculators s all working at once would be necessary to put it into shape for lor Immediate use This difficulty will be he predicted by development of calculating calculating calculating cal cal- machines which will produce figures usable for making accurate weather forecasts several days in ad ad- vance The casting of the inch telescope telescope telescope tele- tele scope mirror said Dr Adams will be an experiment looking tO toward 3rd pro pro- production o of a inch mirror t to be used in a telescope to be built and operated by the California Institute of Technology and the Mount Wilson observatory It will be made ofa of ot a type of ot glass containing more quartz than ordinary glass so will expand and contract much less under changing changing chang chang- ing temperatures during the night while observations are being mad made Efforts to make a inch mirror of pure quartz have bave not been ruc- ruc Dr Adams said ADDS TO UNIVERSE The inch telescope will be able to photograph heavenly bodies as far faraway Sway away as light years twice the range of at the inch telescope now the worlds world's largest This means that eight times as much spare space in the universe e can be explored with the new telescope as is now how possible New measurements of the thc temperatures temperatures tempera tempera- tures of stars that apparently are the hottest of any in the heavens were reported by Dr C C. C S. S Beals Seals of the Dominion Astrophysical observatory Victoria B. B C. C These stars known as the Wolf Wolf- Rayet stars range in heat from to degrees he found from analysis 5 of the light that th they y give off The actual temperatures of the stars may be far greater how however ver because they probably radiate heat slowly A scale of increasing atomic hammer hammer hammer ham ham- mer bl blows ws necessary for tor disintegrating ing the cores of atoms ranging from rom those light in weight to heavy ones was suggested by Dr J. J D. D Cockroft of Cambridge university England Reversing the old alchemists' alchemists dream and turning gold into something else probably will take tak particles fired at the cores of ot gold atoms with energy of five to ten million volts he estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated bec because use gold is heavy Atoms of at elements of lighter weight probably can be split with smaller amounts of ot energy corresponding roughly to their weight