COSMIC RAYS
WORLD-WIDE CHAIN. STATION TO BE LOCATED AT CHRISTCHURCH. (Per United Press Association.) Christchurch, November 4. One of the world-wide chain of recording stations established by the eminent American physicist, Professor A. H. Compton, for the study of cosmic rays, will be located shortly at Christchurch. Magnetic observatory records will be taken simultaneously at these stations and the data will be sent to America to assist scientists in the study of one of the greatest modern scientific problems, the origin of the cosmic ray, depending on which is the problem whether the universe is re-estab-lishing and maintaining itself or heading towards self-destruction. I
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Southland Times, Issue 22730, 5 November 1935, Page 8
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