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Issues
January 1972
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Letters
The clock “paradox”—majority view
James Terrell; R. K. Adair; R. W. Williams; F. Curtis Michel; Donovan A. Ljung; Daniel Greenberger; James P. Matthesen; Victor Korenman; Thomas W. Noonan; Richard Price; Vern Sandberg; P. H. Polak; S. R. de Groot; Gerhart Lüders; John G. Fletcher; Mendel Sachs
Physics Today 25 (1), 9–51 (1972);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3070667
Search and Discovery
Articles
Introducing scale symmetry
Physics Today 25 (1), 23–27 (1972);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3070673
Results of some MIT–SLAC scattering experiments have aroused interest in a theory of dynamical quantities that are independent of dimensional parameters.
Electron Spectroscopy or Chemical Analysis
Physics Today 25 (1), 30–39 (1972);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3070674
Photoelectron and Auger techniques, now routinely used to determine energy‐level schemes, are being extended to very complex molecules and hard‐to‐handle samples.
Joint meeting goes West
Physics Today 25 (1), 40–45 (1972);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3070675
The “New York meeting” has wound its way to San Francisco. Special symposia on energy, politics, education and jobs will highlight the four‐day APS–AAPT program.
Books
Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov on the Corpuscular Theory and John Dalton and The Atomic Theory
Physics Today 25 (1), 68–69 (1972);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3070679
Physics: A Modern Approach and Physics: an ebb and flow of ideas
Physics Today 25 (1), 83–85 (1972);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3070690
