A human being can tolerate 5Gs for a short time. A 10-pound head would feel like it was 50 pounds under a 5 G acceleration. But that’s not the primary problem. The human body is optimized for the 1 G ...

The dummy got its name back in 2021, and it honors Arturo Campos, the man considered partially responsible for saving the Apollo 13 mission. He did so by devising a contingency plan meant to ...

DR. NORMAN CAMPBELL, in his recent book, “Measurement and Calculation,” laments the absence of a name for the C.G.S. unit of acceleration, and the phrase “centimetres per second per second ...