Word: einstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shift has figured largely in modern ideas of cosmic structure. Albert Einstein predicted as a consequence of his relativity theory that light from large bodies would show a shift toward the long end of the spectrum, that this shift did not mean a real movement away from earth. Willem De Sitter, on the contrary, claimed it as evidence that matter is constantly tending to scatter, expand the limits of the universe...
Said Professor Albert Einstein in a speech with which he opened the seventh German radio exhibition in Berlin: "One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches...
Industrious Herr Scheinschneider receives $12 per consultation, professes to be able to solve 80% of the problems brought him. One client, Professor Albert Einstein, left him declaring: "Wunderbar! I am astounded!" But because 34 of the clairvoyant's clientele accused him of being a faker and haled him into court, the judge last week arranged a game in which the accused...
...fell to Albert Einstein, in the next century, to realize this hope of Faraday...
Whether or not Dr. Einstein has that accomplished as a laboratory feat, he accompanied his introduction of Solid Space with a rhetorical flourish which will doubtless confuse students for years to come. Meaning merely that Space had at last come into its own as the ultimate reality, he exclaimed: "Space is now having its revenge, so to speak, and is eating up Matter...