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...Einstein's theory of relativity was one of the giant leaps of the human intellect. So impressive was it that for years most physicists have accepted it as the fundamental law of the universe, even though no one had devised methods or machines sensitive enough to verify it completely. Last week its most basic concept triumphantly passed the most rigorous test...
Rescue by Theory. In 1905 Albert Einstein announced his Special Theory of Relativity, and rescued physics from the confusion into which it was thrown by loss of the ether. In the new world of Einstein, the speed of light itself was established as the only dependable constant. Thus, to an observer, the speed of light would remain the same, whether the observer was approaching the light's source or speeding away from it. With light doing duty as the universe's basic constant, the ether was no longer needed as a theoretical frame of reference...
Piel was right, but his theory was four years in the proof. To stay abreast of fast-breaking scientific research, he commissioned authoritative reports from men at the frontiers of discovery: Physicist I. I. Rabi, Geneticist George W. Beadle, the late Dr. Albert Einstein and 15 other Nobel prizewinners. The magazine was redesigned to offer a rich reading diet of articles on all the leading science disciplines: the physical, social, technical, medical and life sciences. Scientific American blossomed with graphic color so compelling that a portfolio of illustrations has sold more than 7,000 copies...
Died. Lyman Bryson, 71, longtime professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, who discussed the philosophers from the Greeks to Bertrand Russell over CBS radio beginning in 1938 (The People's Platform, Invitation to Learning), broadcast literate conversations with such contemporary thinkers as Arnold Toynbee and Albert Einstein; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...then, Rationalist Russell has frequently attacked religion. All the more notable is his conclusion that science can never say what ought to be done. In this view, the reader can find a reproach to the hubris of today's vociferous army of scientist-prophets, notably the late Albert Einstein in the U.S., J.B.S. Haldane in Britain, Joliot-Curie in France...