ABSTRACT
Many people would accept this story as a parable of contemporary science. When challenged, they would admit that the criticism applies less to science in general than to the individual scientists who lose contact with the outside world by undue concentration on their own particular problems. Mr Eastwood illuminates these questions from the standpoint that ‘poet and scientist are alike concerned with the ordering of experience and to both the imagination is all-important.’ Since poetry is concerned with life, it must speak of science and technology. These historic experiments were the first to measure fall-out, the radioactive debris produced in every nuclear explosion, which is subsequently distributed widely over the Earth’s surface. Dr Bruel concludes that any suspected risk to hearing should be assessed by measuring both the average sound level and the amount of sound energy in short-duration peaks.
