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THE CHINA MAIL.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1961.

CATCH-A-MAN SCENT...FROM

BUTTERFLIES!

TINY ampoule of liquid is now undergoing

A stringent tests in a faris perfume house. Object to

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thes beconte a commercial 'proposition. Unusual? Yes. It was extracted from BUTTERFLIES.

Scirullato have become fas cinated recently by the reents exuded by Insects. They seem to have two prime u'es-to ex- cite the opposite sex, or to ward off hunter.

Six months ago 1 reported work by German entomologists which revealed clearly that the female of soine species of but- terfly attracts mates by trigger- ing off a line spray of perfume, The same sex-gimmick has been observed in America Queen butterflies un more than 40 nevar ions. Two acienti have now extracted amount from dozens of Quera bottled it, and bad it Hussin to Paris for treats.

They describe if # "sweet sradling. lrsive, and indieira- able,"

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different types of lighting. all win shop in these big stores will appreciate, the myriads of ti-coloured shelvet pose speed illumination problems.

When they arched for two ieleutical markets, willing fo erifice selling the to experi- mumis, the relentists emuld” And

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squarely on this little cloud-wrapped planet as any man; tall and spare ex-and young-looking, and already mildly

donnish.

Frowning a little, he peers up into the skeletal mass of antennae that looms starkly above the flat Cambridge meadows.

And out beyond it, into_space.

For Professor Martin Ryle, perhaps the world's most brilliant experimental radio astrono- mer, there is no sense-defying mystery out there, unfathomable for ever to mortal man on his obscure cosmic speck. A mystery, yes; but one that is receding already before his electronic probe, that reaches out almost to the edge of space and to the beginnings of time.

Ryle has found the frequency

of the finite. He has heard

hisslut away on his radio mm- In the historie Cavendish Lo- plifiers sounds that took place boratory In Cambridge, where 8,000 million years as they began shaping up cosmology awesome lument of long-dead from a philosophy Into an exact suns, now hurting deeper and

seience, many a miracle has been deeper into spince.

And now he is sure that he has found much more than that; that these primeval sounds, and the conclusions about them spewed foul non-stop by his calculating

machines, add up. nothing less. Dan the solution to the Riddle nt Creation.

BIG BANG

This Is sensational stuff. But who, Rylo's tiny frown asks, can doubt any longer that the Uni- verse began in one single in- credible moment of time, with one unimaginable atomle Big Bang?

barn since Lord Rutherford and his helpers begon to take the atom to pinces there fifty years Ago.

Bitt never one like this.

GENESIS

Before the Big Bang 10,000 million years ago, says Ryle, the Universe was one single atom of It has been bursting outwards. incredibly concentrated energy. bomb-like, ever since.

PROFESSOR MARTIN RYLE

By Simon Kavanaugh -

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth...."

University's Arst Chinbridge Professor of Radio Astronomy Certainly not Marlin Tyle, coukt hardly expect to duck F.R.S., Iaunching his shattering that one completely, after his be interpreted as scientific evid- cosmological tidings with a noi paper to Britain's Royal As- ence in support of Genesis. inconsiderable Lesser Bang that tronomical Society the other day

Ryle has carefully sold drew the admiration of public had reaped him so rich (and un- bs little as possibic. He has quite relations experts all over London. wanted) a crop of headlines. enough conflict on band as it is. The secondary rumblings of And, clearly, this earnest without taking on the massed that Bang will be heard for a young selentist's new conviction reasoning of religion too. long time yet.

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compiled slowly a list of over 2,000 newly-discovered "rndlo Stars".

Ityle, by now appointed to Cambridge's Arst chair of radio astronomy, had re-mapped the heavens, But he had barely yet begun.

TADY ✪ LUCK-

your

CHINA MAIL

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24

| AQUARIUS (January 21. February 19): If you in- dulge less in fault-finding, those under you will be self-confident and take greater pride in their work.

more

PISCES (February 20-March 201: Don't let old-fashioned

idens spoil your attitude to- wards the future, but try to adapt yourself to chang- ing times.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Encourage self-expression in a young person and avoid suppressing his developing personality.

TAURUS (April 20-May 201: A surprise Invitation will please you very much, and you will

meet somebody whom you have long ad- mired from afar.

GEMINI May 21-June 21): You have the capacity to work exceptionally hard in the puranit of a living, and still find time for n happy home life.

(CANCER (June 22-July 21: Finding yourself emotional- ly involved with a person of the opposite sex, don't con- ceal your feelings and you will soon find out if they are reciprocated.

LEO

(July 22-August 21): You would not derive much satisfaction from success achieved by stepping ruth- lessly over an associate.

VIRGO

Last year, his masts picked up the first signals from the most distant object so for found in the Universe: a new Milky Way. 4.500 million light-years nwny. It was labelled tersely 3C-205.

And the Duke of Edinburgh, in London, heard this dramatic whisper front the other end of Creation, transmittert by Post Office line to the Royal Society's | 41 DRA (September Tercentenary Exhibition in Lon- don.

(August 22- September 22) By voicing your difculties, and being homent about them, you will be able to get useful advice from people who can really help you.

THE LAST

Now Ryle is to have at Cam- bridge a yet more powerful tele- scope with which to unlock the secrets of that last, remotest cosmic fifth, "I hnd no lden what abang I was creating outside the Society," he said mildly and modestly after the lecture that crowded the Congo off Fleet Street's front pages.

Hoyle and the "steady state" men are far from Bnished. They have still to be convinced that Ryle's mathematics are as sound- comprehensive as his rodlo

ly circuits.

But Professor Martin Ryle, en- Joying a little Spring sailing with his family aboard his home- bufit catamaran, is unperturbed. In a sense that he never in- tended, be has achieved more al- rendy than he could have dared to hope. for.

dust.

He has shown that Man, after all, is not a meaningless speck clinging to a grain of cosmic And it was there, in October, 1957, that Martin: Ryle first He can hear sounds that died found the kind of fame he has 8,000 million years ago. He is never sought: as the undoubted burn of God, British hero of Satellite Week.

Hastly, with his little team, be rigged up a home-made neria) When radio astronomers cul the morning after Sputnik I was lide, the spectacle is hardly launched. There was no sleep less breathtaking than if it were for any of them after that as, stars. And Martin Ryle's cosmic tired-eyed and heavy-swentered, bombshell has locked him in they pored over thele plotting In- fundamental dispute with a fel- struinents and kept awoke on co- low Cambridge professor and ra- dio nutronomer: Fred Hoyle.

RUMPUS

Hoyle is a "steady state" man. He is sure the Universe har al- ways existed and always will. It is expanding, new matter is forming continuously In empty space to All the gaps.

coni.

JACOBY

23-

October 221: An unexpect- ed meeting with an BC- quaintance who has been abroad for a long time may ripen into a new, sincere friendship.

SCORPI0 (October 23-

November 21): A person born under Capricorn will appeal to you greatly, and his outlook on life will prove very similar to yours,

SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): A new contact may not influence your immediate plans, but the assosiation will prove very useful in the future. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): Your cheer- ful nature will help a friend who is greatly in need of encouragement at this time.

YOUR BIRTHDAY: If this birthday, count your blessings, nut much

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BRIDGE

QOUTH'S 10 point hand is a do. He will run like a seared The reward, for Ryle, would perfect opening no-trump rabbit and take his four have been worth more discom- whether you pizy 10-17, 16-18, diamonds and four, cluba..... fort still. He heard his first man- or 15-18 as your no-frump made sound from space.

10 point

What sliculd he do at dupli- automatic raise to cate?

North's range and "Here il comes!” shouted some-hand ly an one from the next room. Poring game. over a recorder, looking as young and keen as any of his students, Ryle watched red squlagles trac- ed out evenly on graphed pa- per.

There is a perceptible intel-

Then, from the loudspeaker on lectual quickening in Cambridge the wall, he heard his first these days that has nothing to "bleep-bleep".

do' with the Spring. There has What did Professor Ryle do not been so promising un acade then? He rang up his wife. And inte rumpus for years.

Mrs Elion Ryle, orthopaedie

and physiotherapist be nurse fore her marriage, became the first woman in Britain to hear that portentous little space- sound.

And Ryle, 6ft 4ing and 42, is the man to handle his side of it. He is of soundly academile stock; the son of a professor and the nephew of Gilbert Ryle the philosopher, who has himself been the centre of an ocade- mie rumpus or two.

Young flyle was an Oxford

GALAXIES

(Christ Church) man, and ho The new selence grew up fast. spent his war within the Tele- By the time Sputnik II siresked communications Research Ea- overhead there were 110 more tablishment, designing methods sleepless nights, and Marin of outwitting the German rauar Rylo's operations room resembled more than ever some selence-. defencer.

Reaching the Cavendish on an fiction fantasy. By now Instru- 1.C.. Fellowship in 1048, he ments counted new galaxies for became one of the foundera of him while he slept.

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the quite new selence of radio He was installed in the Mul- astronomy, He was known first lard Radio Astronomy Observa- es a University lecturor in play- fory with a bigger, better Instru- | on tics; then, pince 1949, as a Fel- ment: for this kind of work, South Avill low of Trinity College.

twenty times more powerful before he gains the lead; ) There were fow big Govern- than fis twin at Judrell Bank. mont grants then for building With its powerful electronic However, West has a very towering aerial arrays and ma- ald, ho "kaw further into deep proper five of spades opening chino-crammed laboratories. Just spice but ohy man before: four- lead and East'a ton will -loso a handful of engor students, do- Bfths of the way to the very to South's king or jack. ing what they could in a seraich edge of the Univetso, From data establishment · behind, the Uni- fed plöddingly into his machines, At rubber, bridze Bouth wal- Į voralty's Rugby pitch.

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