When Australia's Physicist Edward G. Bowen first proposed the startling theory that the earth's rainfall is strongly influenced by showers of space dust, most meteorologists howled him down. But Welsh-born Bowen is hard to discourage. For eight years, whenever he could take time from his job as chief of the Radiophysics Division of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, he searched for evidence to buttress his argument. He found a hopeful amount, and by last week Physicist Bowen had become something of a meteorological hero. After hearing Bowen talk at the International...
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