Word: cosmos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down to ultimate particles. Protons and electrons have electric fields, and relativistic equations which tried to allow for the presence of such fields came out with ''singularities" (anomalies). Thus physicists found themselves dealing in effect with two separate universes, the invisible atom and the vast cosmos. To Dr. Einstein this seemed wrong. His powerful imagination saw Nature as an integrated whole. Beneath the quantum mechanics and Relativity, he was sure, the deepest wells of ultimate reality held the secret of a great unity. Few years ago he made a start toward a "Unified Field Theory," abandoned it when...
...govern all earthly events. They, under Judge Rutherford's leadership, distrust formalized religion, lump clergymen with financiers, politicians, the League of Nations and Lucifer, the last of whom they believe to be actively at large. In their scrutinies of Holy Writ, the Bible Students have concluded that three "cosmos" divide history. Cosmos I began with Adam, ended with the Flood. Cosmos II ended in 1914. The Bible Students once predicted that Cosmos III would end with the Kingdom of God in 2874 but currently they are more concerned with Judge Rutherford's prophecy that a universal...
...Astrophysical Journal; of peritonitis following a gallstones operation; in Chicago. Dr. Frost's greatest achievements were in the mechanics of stargazing, in spectroscopic technique whereby are calculated the diameters, masses, densities, speeds and directions of stars. During his lifetime and partly through his labors, the known cosmos multiplied from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of heavenly bodies...
...profit system? Bunk! I still continue to believe that individual endeavor will find its incentive in rewards that will come to it, and without the possibility of such rewards our economy will be stultified. It will be impossible for us to take our place in the cosmos of the nations. The expectation that we're going into a state of innocuous desuetude in this country is so silly to me that I just can't be a subscriber...
...newshawks who remembered that Einstein's original universe was closed, curved and finite were startled when he said he was no longer sure of this. But there was no particular reason for excitement on this score. Following the General Theory of Relativity (1915) Einstein erected a cosmos whose radius turned out to be 32,000,000,000 light years. But Willem de Sitter worked out a universe in which space itself was expanding independently of its matter and Hubble & Humason at Mount Wilson confirmed this expanding universe theory by actual observations. Thus Einstein's universe fell into general...