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...Mind. In Philadelphia, after Harry Stone, 44. walked into the Einstein Medical Center and complained that he had suffered severe headaches for several years, surgeons began removing a 32-inch knife blade that had been embedded in his skull for 28 years...
Relativity in Action. The teeth are about an inch apart along the undulator, and this seems coarse for an apparatus that yields such tiny waves. But the undulator is "shrunk" by one of the strange effects connected with Einstein's relativity. According to "the Lorentz contraction," a stationary object shrinks when it is observed from a moving object. The faster the motion, the more the shrinkage...
...bizarre predictions of Einstein's General Relativity is that time runs more slowly in a strong gravitational field. The effect is slight and hard to detect but Astronomer Daniel Popper of U.C.L.A. believes that he has caught time in the act of running slow...
After analyzing 37 spectrograms of his star's light, Dr. Popper found that its wave lengths are, as he had hoped, slightly longer than is normal. This meant that white-dwarf time really does run slow, just as Einstein predicted. The difference is not much. A man living on 40 Eridani B would fall behind by about six earthly seconds...
...igth century hunt for the "celestial ether," which was then considered necessary to carry waves of light through the vacuum of space. When the Michelson-Morley experiment (reported in 1887) proved that the ether does not exist, physics was thrown into confusion and had to be rescued painfully by Einstein's relativity...