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February 1977
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
Letters
Search and Discovery
Articles
Can physics develop reasoning?
Physics Today 30 (2), 23–28 (1977);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037409
The findings of Swiss scholar Jean Piaget suggest that it can—by helping people achieve a series of four distinct but overlapping stages of intellectual growth as they search for patterns and relationships.
Solar power from satellites
Physics Today 30 (2), 30–38 (1977);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037410
The combination of solar energy collectors in synchronous orbit with receiving stations on Earth, linked by microwave power‐transmitting beams, could be economic, safe and environmentally acceptable.
Recent advances in neutron physics
Physics Today 30 (2), 40–51 (1977);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037411
Along with new techniques, the last decade has seen new studies—such as ultracold neutrons and “neutron bottles,” resonance behavior and doorway states, subthreshold fission, doubly radiative capture and neutron stars.
Books
Theory of Lepton‐Hadron Processes at High Energies: Partons, Scale Invariance, and Light‐cone Physics
Physics Today 30 (2), 55–56 (1977);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037414
Low Energy Electron Diffraction: The Theory and Its Application to Determination of Surface Structure
Physics Today 30 (2), 57–58 (1977);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037416
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Editorial
France’s Oppenheimer
William Sweet
Making qubits from magnetic molecules
Stephen Hill
Learning to see gravitational lenses
Sebastian Fernandez-Mulligan