To explain radio, among other natural phenomena, physicists have imagined a stretchy blanket of ions encasing the Earth. This is the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer, named after Harvard’s Bombay-born ...

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IN the issue of NATURE of September 5, 1925, p. 357. Messrs. Breit and Tuve give a method for determining the height of the Heaviside Layer at night. It consists essentially in transmitting a series ...

ONE of the most fruitful methods of investigating the Heaviside layer is that originated by Breit and Tuve, in which a series of short impulses of the order of 0.2 of a millisecond in duration are ...

What pot of gold does science hope to discover at the end of the cosmic rainbow? There could be no bigger jackpot than a single theory which would wrap together, and neatly explain, the basic physical ...