Word: cosmos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Einstein's calculations filled the void, and stretched it far into the cosmos with a brief, daring equation that tripped off the tongue with the doomful simplicity of the first few notes of Beethoven's Fifth: E=mc².This meant that a mass (m) of one gram of matter contains within itself energy (E) which is the equivalent in ergs to the square of the velocity of light (c²) in centimeters per second. Einstein went on to demonstrate mathematically that there can be no absolute measure of time or space because all spatial bodies...
...Dice in the Cosmos. Einstein was convinced that the cosmos is an orderly, continuous unity: gravity and electro-magnetism must, therefore, have a common source. He was in a minority, for Planck's famed Quantum Theory, which Einstein himself did so much to develop, and which many modern scientists accept, suggests that the physical universe is made up of small particles (quanta) that are governed not by some orderly causality but by chance...
...Einstein persisted: "I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos." He set himself to find a new synthesis, which he called the Unified Field Theory. He wanted to unify the field of gravitation with the field of electromagnetism, and thus resolve every cosmic motion into a single set of laws. On three occasions Einstein felt sure he was on the point of grasping the "final truth." But he had to admit last year that he had "not yet found a practical way to confront the theory with experimental evidence," the crucial test for any theory...
...Rocky Jones, Space Ranger; a bearded, mad scientist was certain to be thwarted by right-thinking Captain Video who, as the press release puts it, is an unbeatable "combination of Einstein, King Arthur and Marco Polo," and Space Patrol's Commander Buzz Corry was zooming through the cosmos intent on reforming the almost limitless supply of villains with his soul-washing Brain-O-Graph...
...Washington, Cooper labors unsystematically but tirelessly seven days a week, on an average of eleven hours a day. He lives in the elegant Cosmos Club, and resolutely fends off hostesses, keeping his social engagements down to a maximum of three a week. As always, his office swarms with constituents, and John Cooper frequently begins his day with breakfast surrounded by visiting friends. So hectic is the pace that his administrative assistant, Bill Macomber, finds it necessary to pick up the Senator and drive him to the office each morning in order to confer privately and get the Cooper calendar straight...