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Relativistic astrophysics—A report on the Second Texas Symposium

JUL 01, 1965
I. Robinson
A. Schild
E. L. Schucking

Scientists of 1965 see the universe with diverse eyes. They look with the two‐hundred‐inch pyrex mirror on top of Mount Palomar, with a hundred thousand gallons of cleaning fluid buried more than a mile underground, with scintillation counters flying in rockets and satellites, with a retina covering several square miles of the New Mexico desert at Volcano Ranch, with a steel bowl two hundred and ten feet across at Parkes in Australia, and with a gently swinging aluminum bar in Maryland, waiting patiently for the tremor of a gravitational wave.

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I. Robinson, Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, Dallas.

A. Schild, University of Texas, Austin.

E. L. Schucking, University of Texas, Austin.

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