Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question-and-answer session followed the talk in the Science Center, the last in a series of events commemorating the life and ideas of Malcolm...
...that a Chinese official whom he had been trying to get an appointment with for weeks wanted to meet him in the street immediately. Once invited to Peking, rule No. 1 is never go alone. The Chinese will ask more, and more detailed, questions than any one executive can answer. Depending on the importance of the deal, a good-size delegation would be from four to six: some experts who can discuss the details, and one or two top officers who can sign on the spot if asked. They should go with a commitment to stay as long as necessary...
Even to scientists of the day, these theories seemed patchwork: they dealt with nagging questions, but in an artificial and contrived way. Yet they contained seeds of truth. Science was groping toward the answer to the ether dilemma and the limitations of Newtonian physics. And even without Einstein, someone eventually would have solved the puzzle...
Einstein says there is a definitive answer and, therefore, no paradox. Be cause of other relativistic effects that stem from leaving and returning to earth, if one twin departs on a high-velocity space journey, he will be younger than the earth-bound brother when he returns...
...position in the sky. The amount of shift, Einstein calculated, should be 1.75 seconds of arc?a small variation, but one discernible by astronomers of the day. But how could astronomers photograph a star nearly in line with the sun when it would certainly be obscured by sunlight? Answer: during a total eclipse. On May 29, 1919, during an eclipse expedition to the island of Principe off the West African coast, the British astronomer Arthur Eddington found deflections in starlight that almost matched Einstein's prediction. Later, when Einstein was asked what he would have concluded if no bending...