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This was no economist with a Message for the 2,000 packed listeners, but a scientist. More strange, he was there to talk on a subject in which nine-tenths of the audience had had no prior interest: "The Expanding Universe." But he was Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, M. A., D. Sc.. LL. D., F. R. S., Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University, Director of Cambridge Observatory, metaphysician extraordinary of modern physics...
Einstein's law states that if a gram of matter could be turned into energy it would yield 2 (followed by 13 ciphers) calories. Sir Arthur Eddington has used this fact to show that the energy of the sun may be derived from the annihilation of matter. Although this theory has not been entirely disapproved, it is doubtful whether matter can be destroyed so easily...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of practical astronomy, and director of the Harvard College Observatory, received yesterday the gold medal of the London Royal Astronomical Society for his studies of the galaxy. England has no higher honor for astronomers than this reward which Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Dr. Albert Einstein have won in the past...
When scientists begin writing like preachers and preachers begin talking like scientists, the great battle of God and Nature is all but over. Famed for his piety is Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, son of a Presbyterian minister. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington is a devout, creedless Quaker. Physicist Arthur Holly Compton has been advancing towards God more slowly although his father, too, is a Presbyterian minister. Now writing a book about his beliefs, the University of Chicago professor expounded some of them last week in an interview with Philip Kinsley of the Chicago Tribune. Said Scientist Compton...
...feature of the relativity theory . . . is the absoluteness of the velocity of light. -Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington. The speed of light is perhaps the most fundamental of all the constants of nature. -Dr. Arthur Holly Compton. Speed-of-light . . . that most fundamental constant.-Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. In a universe torn to metaphysical shreds by conflicting theories as to its nature and origin, with the calm old laws of cause &; effect pushed aside by principles of indeterminance and inanimate free will, with time no longer the placid ticking of a clock but a fourth dimension, the speed of light...