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Volume 46, Issue 8
August 1993
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ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699

Reference Frame

Thoughts on Being Bad
Daniel Kleppner
Physics Today 46 (8), 9–11 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2808995
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Letters

Judge SSC (And Other Basice Science) on Its Potential for Reward, Not Its ‘Size’
Michael Chanowitz; Lon Hocker
Physics Today 46 (8), 13–14 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2808996
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Particle Physics Spinoffs, Religion: Replies to Roy
Daniel M. Kaplan; Francis J. Kelly; Rustum Roy
Physics Today 46 (8), 14–15 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2808997
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Rethink Physicists' Role in Light of Job Decline
Alex Kalamarides
Physics Today 46 (8), 15 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2808998
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YBCO Magnetic Texture Credit Smoothed Out
Alex Holloway; Bernard Raveau
Physics Today 46 (8), 15–66 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2808999
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Do Portland Science Essays Distort Science?
Bernard Ortiz De Montellano; Alvin M. Saperstein; Hunter Adams, III
Physics Today 46 (8), 66–67 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809016
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Correction
Physics Today 46 (8), 67 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809017
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Search and Discovery

CEBAF Readies Its Electron Beam for Studies of Nucleons and Nuclei
Madhusree Mukerjee
Physics Today 46 (8), 17–19 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809000
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Articles

Multiparticle Interferometry and the Superposition Principle
Daniel M. Greenberger; Michael A. Horne; Anton Zeilinger
Physics Today 46 (8), 22–29 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881360

We're just beginning to understand the ramifications of the superposition principle at the heart of quantum mechanics. Multiparticle interference experiments can exhibit wonderful new phenomena.

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The Fluid Physics of Parachut Inflation
Carl W. Peterson
Physics Today 46 (8), 32–39 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.881361

Cloth packed to the density of oak emerges from its container in a second, changes its shape from cylindrical log to ‘cloth streamers’ to hemispherical cup in another 2 seconds, and decelerates a one‐ton payload from the speed of sound to highway speed limits.

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Washington Reports

Clinton Picks Lane to Lead NSF and Krebs to Head DOE Research
Irwin Goodwin
Physics Today 46 (8), 41–43 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809001
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Collision Course: Beseiged by Congress, SSC Awaits Key Decisions on Its Fate
Irwin Goodwin
Physics Today 46 (8), 43–45 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809002
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Physics Community

UK to Create Research Council for Particle Physics and Astronomy
William Sweet
Physics Today 46 (8), 47–48 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809003
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Werthamer Resigns as APS Executive Secretary
Physics Today 46 (8), 48 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809004
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Hennage is New Executive Director of OSA
Physics Today 46 (8), 48 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809005
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APS Surveys Reveal Different Demographics
Physics Today 46 (8), 49 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809006
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Opinion

What's Wrong with these Publications? or, Some Pathologies of Scientific Authorship
J. Ross Macdonald
Physics Today 46 (8), 51 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809007
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Books

Absolute Zero Gravity and Science with a Smile
Betsy Devine; Joel E. Cohen; Robert L. Weber; Scott A. Sandford
Physics Today 46 (8), 55 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809008
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The Rickover Effect: How One Man Made a Difference
Theodore Rockwell; Robert A. Frosch
Physics Today 46 (8), 56–57 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809009
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Cranks, Quarks and the Cosmos
Jeremy Bernstein; Victor J. Stenger
Physics Today 46 (8), 57–58 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809010
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Critical Phenomena at Surfaces and Interfaces: Evanescent X‐Ray and Neutron Scattering
Helmut Dosch; Terrence J. Jach
Physics Today 46 (8), 58 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809011
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Fivefold Symmetry and Spiral Symmetry
István Hargittai; Clifford A. Pickover; Jean‐François Sadoc
Physics Today 46 (8), 58–59 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809012
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Introducing Einstein's Relativity
R. A. D'Inverno; Alex Harvey
Physics Today 46 (8), 59–60 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809013
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New Books
Physics Today 46 (8), 60 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809014
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New Products

New Products
Physics Today 46 (8), 63–65 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809015
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We Hear That

In Brief
Physics Today 46 (8), 69 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809018
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Obituaries

Veniamin Chebotayev
Vladilen Letokhov
Physics Today 46 (8), 69–70 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809019
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Zoltan Bay
Valentine L. Telegdi
Physics Today 46 (8), 70 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809020
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Hillard B. Huntington
Ivar Giaever; Alexander R. Grone
Physics Today 46 (8), 70 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809021
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Herbert Pomerance
Alvin M. Weinberg
Physics Today 46 (8), 70–71 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809022
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Richard G. Fowler
Robert St. John; Roger N. Blais
Physics Today 46 (8), 71 (1993); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2809023
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