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...For most of the 20th century, both relativity and star travel fascinated this writer. The reasons Albert Einstein concluded there is an absolute barrier at the speed of light seemed at first clear, then later not so clear upon closer...

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...ceed one's grasp. Thus we reach for Alpha Centauri with a round-trip manned and womanned mission as the proposed overarching goal under a clear plan of exploration - a grand experiment described in later chapters. Whether or not we succeed in grasping the goal under this or under any plan is not as important as it is to set a definite plan and work towards its goal. The...

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...- Ch.7. The Phase One Experiment: The First Starship. 37 -- Ch.8. The Phase Two Experiment: Alpha Centauri or Bust!. 45 -- Ch.9. Voyage to the Center of the Galaxy. 50 -- Ch.10. An Hypothesis: There is no Speed Barrier in the Universe. 52 --...

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...BEGIN the ADVENTURE How to Break the Light Barrier by A.D. 2070 Homer B. Tilton Florentin Smarandache 2 To the memory of Benjamin E. Ti... ...D. 2070 Homer B. Tilton Florentin Smarandache 2 To the memory of Benjamin E. Tilton (1876-1955), a close contemporary of Albert Einstein ... ...ntemporary of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Demand ProQuest Informat... ... Books on Demand ProQuest Information & Learning (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ...mats.htm Production Editor Gloria Valles © Copyright 2004 by Homer B. Tilton / Tucson, Arizona USA All rights reserved. Keywords: Physi... ... ISBN: 1-931233-84-5 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 BEGIN THE ADVENTURE Ho... .... "The speed of light relative to what?" I often asked anyone who would listen. The common response was, "Light needs no specification of that ki... ...ed. Those few lines contain too many (six) downer words and phrases to list, so they have been underlined instead. It is essentially one entire ... ...avity there; but a balance-wheel timepiece would operate the same in both places because such a timing mechanism is immune to changes in gravity and...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a...

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... Right Somewhere 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ?It Never Does? 9. Appearance and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden 13. The Progress of an Epidemic 14. Taking Advice 15. No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons should not ...

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...FRIEND Charles Dickens Volume Four BOOK THE FOURTH A TURNING A Publication of the Penn State Electronic Classics Series Our Mutual Friend Volume Four... ... Series Our Mutual Friend Volume Four by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Our Mutual Friend Volume Four by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylva... ...e made ekally sure afore, and have got disapinted. It has told upon you.’ ‘Listen,’ said Bradley, in a low voice, bending forward to lay his hand upon... ...t o’ drowning, and I can’ t be drowned. I wouldn’ t have that there busted B’lowbridger aware on it, or her people might make it tell agin’ the damage... ... his wooden arm-chair, and looked through the window at the lightning, and listened to the thun- der. But, his thoughts were far from being absorbed b... ...e dear old creatures were too bashful or too dull to assume their required places in the discussion, why then it would seem desirable that the dear ol... ...ut them out and basted them. 98 Our Mutual Friend – V ol. 4 Chapter 9 TWO PLACES VACATED SET DOWN BY THE omnibus at the corner of Saint Mary Axe, and...

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...Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory»s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Volume One Conta... ...ation Le Morte D’Arthur: Volume One by Sir Thomas Malory is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Le Morte D’Arthur: Volume One by Sir Thomas Malory, the Pennsyl... ...d was Charlemain, or Charles the Great, of whom the history is had in many places, both in French and in En- glish. And the third and last was Godfrey... ...all. Also Galfridus in his British book recounteth his life: and in divers places of England many remembrances be yet of him, and shall remain perpetu... ... of a king, and but a young man. CHAPTER XVI Y et more of the same battle. B y then came into the field King Ban as fierce as a lion, with bands of gr... ... is truth, said King Ban and Bors. Also said Merlin, withdraw you where ye list, for this three 38 Thomas Malory year I dare undertake they shall not... ...heavy. Then said the knight unto Arthur, Thou art in my daunger whether me list to save thee or slay thee, and but thou yield thee as overcome and rec...

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...my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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...Excerpt: This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived ...

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...D SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw, the Pen... ...r Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Mr. W. L. Courtney, Sir William Gil- bert, Mr. A. B. Walkley, Miss Lena Ashwell, Professor Gilbert Murray, Mr. George Alexand... ...lay: it is the author who suffers. The granting of the licence practically places him above the law; for though it may be legally pos- sible to prosec... ...ond copy, a little blue-bound pamphlet, methodically autographed “Lockwood B” among my most valued literary trophies. An innocent lady told me afterwa... ... abject Committee, and by a powerful smell of carnations, heading the long list of playwrights who came there to testify against the censorship, and w... ...cal profession suffers in reputation from the detestable tradition of such places, against which the censorship has proved quite useless. Here we have...

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... Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, the P... ...ng at an age when a child begins to love a fairy tale—all might read it or listen to it, without tedium.” Every one will draw from it what he most nee... ...n’s Eve and Other Stories, London, Vizetelly, 1887; Taras Bulba, trans. by B. C. Baskerville, London, Scott, 1907; The Inspector: a Comedy, Calcutta, ... ...ing; and you set him to fighting!” “You are a gabbler!” said Bulba. “Don’t listen to your mother, my lad; she is a woman, and knows nothing. What sort... ...of Russian nature—and when all the river-banks, fords, and like suit- able places were peopled by Cossacks, whose number no man knew. Their bold comra... ...l that was required was for the Osaul or sub-chief to traverse the market- places and squares of the villages and hamlets, and shout at the top of his...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was in the early days of April; Bernard Longueville had been spending the winter in Rome. He had travelled northward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he w...

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...IC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confidence by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylva- nia State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Confidence by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...asion.” And he turned again with his sketch to her companion, who had been listen- ing to the girl’s conversation with this enterprising stranger, and... ...ats), which looked everywhere at once and yet found time to linger in some places, where Longueville’s own eyes frequently met them. She had soft brow... ...n, resting upon him her own two brilliant little specimens of the tint. He listened with that expression of clear amusement which is not always an ind... ...e of my people there. When they are in Europe they live about in different places. They are fond of Italy. They are extremely nice; it ‘s impossible t... ...spending a week at Baden, and the conversation became general. CHAPTER VII B ut on the following evening, Bernard again found himself seated in friend...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Karenins, husband and wife, continued living in the same house, met every day, but were complete strangers to one another. Alexey Alexandrovitch made it a rule to see his wife every day, so that the servants might have no grounds for suppositions, but avoided dining at ...

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...nina – Part Four by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Anna Karenina – Part Four by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garn... ...sfying both these inclinations. The mornings they spent driving to look at places of interest; the evenings they passed enjoying the national entertai... ...und of her retreating footsteps. He knew she had been expect- ing him, had listened for him, and was now going back to the drawing room. “No,” she cri... ...ul at- tention. He could not comprehend the meaning of the change. She was listening to the stirring of the new life within her. Chapter 4 Alexey Alex... ...otice, without glancing at 41 Tolstoy them, as though there were no other places left, Stepan Arkadyevitch put Levin and Kitty side by side. “Oh, you... ....” “Here,” he said; and he wrote the initial letters, w, y, t, m, i, c, n, b, d, t, m, n, o, t. These letters meant, “When you told me it could never ...

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...Excerpt: It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisi...

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...cation Our Mutual Friend Volume Three by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Our Mutual Friend Volume Three by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylv... ...or knocker, he struck upon the door with the top of his staff, and, having listened, sat down on the threshold. It was characteristic of his habitual ... ...n to blow upon his fingers, he arose and knocked with his staff again, and listened again, and again sat down to wait. Thrice he repeated these action... ...ccounts were all found correct, and the books and the papers resumed their places in the bag. ‘Next,’ said Fledgeby , ‘concerning that bill-broking br... ...I’ll bowl you down. I will, though I have no whiskers,’ here he rubbed the places where they were due, ‘and no manners, and no conversation!’ Having t... ...‘Shall I tell you,’ asked Lizzie, ‘what I see down there?’ ‘Limited little b?’ suggested Bella with her eyebrows raised. ‘ A heart well worth winning,...

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...eo T Leo T Leo T Leo T Leo Tols ols ols ols olst t t t to o o o oy y y y y B B B B BOOK OOK OOK OOK OOK THIR THIR THIR THIR THIRTEEN TEEN TEEN TEEN T... ... Publication War and Peace: Book Thirteen by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace: Book Thirteen by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania S... ...re and there,” and so on; and on paper, all these columns arrived at their places at the appointed time and destroyed the enemy. Everything had been a... ...ns were to meet. He sat in the caleche, dozing and waking up by turns, and listening for any sound of firing on the right as an indication that the ac... ...ilence. His wrath, once expended, did not return, and blinking fee- bly he listened to excuses and self-justifications (Ermolov did not come to see hi... ...ad to consent. CHAPTER VI NEXT DAY THE TROOPS assembled in their appointed places in the evening and advanced during the night. It was an autumn night...

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...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow...

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...Contents Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life .............................................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................................. 14 Chapter Th...

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...Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Democracy and Education by John Dewey, the Pennsylvania State U... ...ology. We have already noted the defects of a psychology of learning which places the individual mind naked, as it were, in contact with physical obje... ...ding. They are looked upon as candidates; they are placed on the wait- ing list. The conception is only carried a little farther when the life of adul... ...inite variety, interweaving with one another in all kinds of subtle ways. (b) Instead of being latent intellectual pow- ers, requiring only exercise f... ...serving carefully cracks on the wall and set him to memorizing meaningless lists of words in an unknown tongue—which is about what we do in fact when ... ... be applied to the entire range of the educa- bility of any individual. It places the heritage from the past in its right connection with the demands ...