The atmosphere is full of vibrations that are too feeble to be felt. No one knows where the vibrations come from or what starts them. Last week, backed by $25,000 from the weather-minded U.S. Navy, the Rev. James B. Macelwane, S.J., St. Louis University, a tubby, genial priest who is one of the world's best seismologists, was laying plans to find out.
Father Macelwane discovered the air vibrations ten years ago when testing a colleague's theory that small tremors in the earth (microseisms) are caused by changes in the atmosphere. He built an oversized barometer which makes a wiggly line on a...
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