
Stories by Paul R. Heyl


How Big is a Quantum?

What is a Quantum?

Is There an Ether?
Aid for the Layman Who Attempts to Keep Abreast of the Changing Concepts of the Modern Physicist

The Speed Record of the Universe
Light Holds the Universal Speed Record. There Is Good Evidence That a Higher Velocity Is Impossible

The Strangest Thing in Physics
Why Water at Its Boiling Point Weighs a Little More Than at a Freezing Temperature. Old Concepts, and Even Laws, Are Broken Down by The New Physics

Wave Atoms
A Scientist Explains Further the Inwardness of the New Schrodinger Atom Concept

What is an Atom?
The Newest Concept of the Atom Is Known as the "Schrodinger" Atom. What Is Its Fundamental Nature?

Weighing the Earth
The Earth's Mass Is About 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Tons. How Is This Amount Actually Determined?

Muscles Built the Pyramids
Human Muscles are More Efficient than the Best Steam Engines. An Electrical Theory of Muscular Action

Children of the Sun
For Heat, Light, Energy, Food, Materials and Our Very Bodies We are Indebted to the Nearest Star--the Sun

The Wonder of the Commonplace
".. Tongues in Trees, Books in the Running Brooks, Sermons in Stones.." As You Like It