| 1. | "
The additional mass also explains why the clusters have gravitational
fields so powerful that they can bend light from more distant objects,
acting like cosmic Coke bottles to create multiple images
(illustration)."
| Source: | Appenzeller, Tim. "Darkness made visible" U.S. News & World Report 128.12 Mar. 27 2000: 48
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| 2. | "
Massive objects exert gravitational pull, so such strings would
betray their presence by their gravitational influence, in particular
through the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, by which massive
objects reveal themselves by bending the trajectories of photons, or
quanta of light."
| Source: | Gangui, Alejandro. "Superconducting Cosmic Strings" American Scientist 88.3 May 1 2000: 254
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| 3. | " Either of two galaxies that apparently lie in
front of the burst's home galaxy could have acted as a
gravitational lens, bending and focusing the light."
| Source: | Cowen, Ron. "Catching a burst's visible glow" Science News 155.5 Jan. 30 1999: 70-71
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| 4. | " Because cosmic X rays are emitted by matter heated to
millions of degrees by violent explosions or intense magnetic or
gravitational fields, the Chandra telescope is revealing new features of
the hottest and most turbulent regions of the universe."
| Source: | Anderson, Robert (American businessperson and engineer). "X-Ray Vision" Natural History 109.3 Apr. 1 2000: 89
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| 5. | "... expedition of the Royal Society in 1919 which went down to
Equatorial Africa, I believe it was, to an eclipse of the sun and
measured the bend of the light rays and thereby verified relativity."
| Source: | Chase, Stuart. "Introduction of Alfred Korzybski at a luncheon in his honor: New York city, January 28, 1948" ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 51.4 Dec. 1 2004: 560-562
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| 6. | "
What happens inside the imploded binary no one knows: the gravitational
fields within black holes are so strong not even light can escape."
| Source: | . "A Matter of Gravity: Bowdoin Astrophysicist Searches for Cosmic Waves" Ascribe Higher Education News Service Oct. 11 2004
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| 7. | "
Pursuing similar studies, theorist James Anglin of the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., and his
coworkers are exploring links between sound waves in a moving fluid and
light waves in a gravitational field."
| Source: | Weiss, P. "Black hole recipe: Slow light, swirl atoms" Science News 157.6 Feb. 5 2000: 86
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| 8. | " Because of the strong gravitational field of a
black hole, light from the infalling gas behind Sgr A* does not make it
directly to us but is bent away or simply swallowed into the darkness."
| Source: | Melia, Fulvio. "The Heart of the Milky Way" American Scientist 88.4 July 1 2000: 346
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| 9. | " As matter
accretes onto neutron stars and black holes, the gravitational energy
released generates cosmic fireworks that are observable with x-ray
telescopes."
| Source: | Olinto, Angela V. "Exotica of Stars" American Scientist 88.5 Sept. 1 2000: 467
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| 10. | "... triangular crystal that refracts (bends) white light rays into a
spectrum, or range of all colors (see diagram below)."
| Source: | Weinstock, Maia. "Laser Dazzle" Science World 56.7 Dec. 13 1999: 17
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| 11. | "... McDonald+ MD+ performed the
first PRK refractive surgery.(50) In the PRK procedure, the surgeon
sculpts the central zone of the cornea with the excimer laser to flatten
the visual axis and bend the passage of light rays closer to the retina."
| Source: | WILSON, THERESA SUPIK. "LASIK Surgery" AORN Journal 71.5 May 1 2000: 963
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| 12. | "... 90 percent of the matter in the cosmos is made of some exotic
substance that doesn't emit light but exerts a gravitational pull."
| Source: | COWEN, RON. "Galaxy map reveals the limits of cosmic structure" Science News 158.7 Aug. 12 2000: 104
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| 13. | " According to
general relativity, any dense body--seen or unseen--acts as a
gravitational lens, deflecting the path of light passing by. An..."
| Source: | R.C. "Milky Way gets a new layer" Science News 157.6 Feb. 5 2000: 91
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| 14. | " According to his theory of general relativity, gravity bends
light and a massive object distorts and magnifies light from an object
behind it.
The astronomers recently focused on three massive, relatively
nearby clusters of galaxies known to act as gravitational lenses."
| Source: | Cowen, R. "Cosmic lenses magnify distant galaxies" Science News Dec. 19 1998: 389-390
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| 15. | "
Light's final recommendation in Tides is to "alter the
gravitational pulls of reform." To this end, he urges more
experimentation rather than governmentwide..."
| Source: | Ott, J. Steven,Goodman, Doug. "Thickening Government: Federal Hierarchy and the Diffusion ofAuthority" Public Administration Review 58.6 Nov. 1 1998: 540-541
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| 16. | "
Light's final recommendation in Tides is to "alter the
gravitational pulls of reform." To this end, he urges more
experimentation rather than governmentwide..."
| Source: | Ott, J. Steven,Goodman, Doug. "The Future of Governing: Four Emerging Models" Public Administration Review 58.6 Nov. 1 1998: 540-541
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| 17. | "... term, the "star love" of
my life, the quasar that has lost its light but continues to exert
silent gravitational pull on every planet I've since encountered?"
| Source: | Aciman, Andre. "Stendhal on MacDougal Street" Commentary 109.5 May 1 2000: 40
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| 18. | " So the entropy in the gravitational field starts at zero at the
Big Bang and gradually increases through gravitational clumping."
| Source: | Craig, William Lane. "A swift and simple refutation of the Kalam cosmological argument?" Religious Studies 35.1 Mar. 1 1999: 57-58
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| 19. | "
Light's final recommendation in Tides is to "alter the
gravitational pulls of reform." To this end, he urges more
experimentation rather than governmentwide..."
| Source: | Ott, J. Steven,Goodman, Doug. "The Tides of Reform: Making Government Work" Public Administration Review 58.6 Nov. 1 1998: 540-541
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| 20. | " Pedorthic objectives are redistribution
of forefoot pressures, reduction of the "bending" stress of
the metatarsal(s), alignment of the first ray, and addressing
biomechanical abnormalities."
| Source: | Goodman, Ashley. "Foot orthoses in sports medicine" Southern Medical Journal 97.9 Sept. 1 2004: 867-871
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| 21. | " The
convention in the main hail was not so much the focus of attention, as a
centre in whose gravitational field all the business of the
conventioneers was held, spinning around the coronation of a candidate."
| Source: | Davies, Philip John. "CROWDED OUT: AMERICAN POLITICAL CONVENTIONS: PART TWO" Contemporary Review 276.1609 Feb. 1 2000: 74
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| 22. | " Just consider some of the main facts in science
which are invisible:
1. The gravitational field is invisible and also of unknown nature,
but it is certain that gravity exists."
| Source: | FOSTER, DAVID. "Proving God Exists" Saturday Evening Post 271.6 Nov. 1 1999: 58
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| 23. | " They suspected a
second planet's gravitational field might be causing the parent
star to "wobble" slightly."
| Source: | Larson, Ruth. "Planetary system discovered, kicking off new era in space" Washington Times Apr. 16 1999: 1
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| 24. | "... star was being yanked around by the gravitational field of not
one, not two, but three planets!"
The three planets are gas giants--two even larger than Jupiter, the
biggest planet in our solar system."
| Source: | RIVERA, RACHEL. "New Planets" Science World 56.1 Sept. 6 1999: 13
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| 25. | "... during its yearlong visit, NEAR will
map the gravitational field of Eros, determine if the body has a
magnetic field, and infer whether the object is solid or a pile of sand."
| Source: | Cowen, R. "Tryst in space: Craft, asteroid rendezvous" Science News 157.8 Feb. 19 2000: 118
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