Word: einstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past month Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble, astronomer of Mt. Wilson Observatory, has been telling Dr. Albert Einstein what he has seen through his big telescope. He has carefully described the red shift in starlight which he is studying with his fellow astronomer, Dr. Milton La Salle Humason. At the same time, a neighbor, Dr. Richard Chace Tolman, physicist of California Institute of Technology, has been explaining his interpretation of Dr. Hubble's starlight news to Dr. Einstein. It appears to him that the Universe is not static as Dr. Einstein has asserted, but constantly enlarging in size, changing...
...Einstein had just finished a lecture on his Unified Field Theory at Mt. Wilson Laboratories when he made his announcement.* One of the audience, Dr. Walter Sydney Adams, Observatory director, asked him to tell the applications of his Unified Field Theory to cosmology. "The old symmetrical spherical space theory is not possible under the new equations." Dr. Einstein answered hastily. Immediately he rushed from the laboratory, already late for an appointment...
...questionnairing Yale Daily News, Dr. Einstein wrote confirmation: "New observations . . . make the presumption near that the general structure of the Universe is not static...
While the California scientists were planning another cosmological talk with Dr. Einstein, they received contradictory news which complicated their Universe for them. Dr. Einstein built his Relativity theory upon the negative results of the famed Michelson-Morley ether-drift experiment performed in 1887. Last week two men announced that they had rechecked that experiment, obtained opposite results. One man, Dr. Dayton Clarence Miller, had made 175,000 more readings of his interferometer at Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland. His results showed a definite ether drift, which he will expound in April at the meeting of the National Academy...
...publicity-loving Southern California that the two greatest personalities there present shall hobnob while the press & public loudly cheer or jeer. Usually this means William Randolph Hearst and whatever foreign personage happens to be visiting Hollywood. But last week it meant Charles Spencer Chaplin and Albert Einstein. All of Hollywood's police reserves turned out one evening to make tunnels through the populace so that Mr. Chaplin could escort Dr. Einstein and a party of scientists to see the first new Chaplin film in two years...