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Four years ago Professor Albert Einstein, the good grey sage of Princeton, N. J., published an essay in which he compared science to a pyramid (TIME, March 16, 1936). At the pyramid's base are a number of unconnected sense impressions, such as that boiling water is turbulent while cold water is quiet. As progress is made up the pyramid, sense impressions are connected by theorems and syntheses which cover more & more phenomena, so that the basic statements need be fewer (the cross section of the pyramid diminishes). Such progress was made, for example, when heat was found...
...Einstein's relativity, which burst on the world as a mathematical vision but which has accumulated many astronomical proofs through the years, explains mass, gravity, inertia, space and time, but not atoms and electric particles, which seem to perform in a bizarre, non-relativistic world of their own. Quantum mechanics, the mathematics of the atom, has developed apart from relativity. Physicists of broad beam feel, however, that this should...
...Einstein once said he expected to devote the rest of his life to the search for a unified field theory which would bridge relativity and quantum mechanics, embrace all phenomena from the atom to the universe. Once he hit on a promising lead-a treatment of space as a double sheet with atomic particles as "bridges" connecting the sheets-but that ran into a dismal dead...
...61st birthday, pipe-smoking, violin-playing Albert Einstein admitted his long-sought formula that will comprehend the universe had not been found. Said he: "I am having difficulty there." Asked if he would celebrate his birthday, he chuckled: "What is there to celebrate? . . . Birthdays are for children...
Legendary are the corporate complications of Associated. Metaphysical, ingenious, a cost-accountant's flea-circus, they are as far above cash-register economics as Einstein is above arithmetic. Legendary also is the personality of Associated's creator, pudgy, laughing, strongarm Tactician Howard C. Hopson. Hopson learned the utility ropes as head of the Capitalization Division of New York State's progressive Public Service Commission, worked 15 hours a day, slept in his office, binged Homerically, ran up astronomical bills telephoning his Janizaries at all hours in all parts of the country, candidly spoke of his "collapsible securities...