Featured in the Fall 2001 Issue Vol. 14, No. 3

FEATURES

The Scientific Renaissance of the Medieval Cathedrals
Philippe Messer
Far from being an uninterrupted Dark Age, the Middle Ages was the period when science was reborn in the West, its flower being the cathedral movement. The cathedrals were schools, and their building sites laboratories of invention. The cathedral movement was the prelude to the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th Centuries.

ANTI-GRAVITY: MYTH OR REALITY/PART 2
The Paradoxes of Moving Electricity
Rémi Saumont
Quantum theory can still not explain some elementary facts about the behavior of electrons in a wire or a condenser. The author, a retired senior researcher and expert in electronics, poses a few of the paradoxes involved.

NASA’S HYPER-X
Hypersonic Flight Ready for Take Off
Marsha Freeman
NASA’s new Hyper-X program combines aircraft and rocket technology to develop a system that will carry more weight, at less cost, into space.