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...Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club takes on nuclear physics this fall with student director Mike Donohue’s production of this Cold War comedy by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. During a stay at a mental hospital three men who claim to be (and may in fact be) physicists Newton, Einstein, and Mobius, become involved in a web of murder, madness, and feigned identity—not to mention international espionage. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office $12, $8 for students. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Thursday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. Loeb...
...Einstein vs. Bohr: Atomic Showdown...
...DIED. MAXIME A. FAGET, 83, NASA engineer dubbed the "Einstein of manned space flight," whose design of the Mercury space capsule made it possible for men to return from space; in Houston, Texas. Early needle-nosed spaceships were almost impossible to protect from the heat of reentry. Faget designed a blunt nose for the Mercury, which created a shock wave that deflected the heat...
...ALBERT EINSTEIN REMARKED IN 1932 THAT "THERE IS NOT THE slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable." Thomas Edison thought alternating current would be a waste of time. Franklin Delano Roosevelt once predicted, when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, that airplanes would never be useful in battle against a fleet of ships. There's nothing like the passage of time to make the world's smartest people look like complete idiots. So let's look at a few more. In 1883 Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society and no mean scientist himself, predicted that...
...humans are gamblers by nature, incorrigible ones, but we're not stupid gamblers: we need to know what the odds are and when the fix is in. So let's extend our posthumous thanks to poor fools like Albert Einstein--as well as to Einstein's high school teacher, who once made the following immortal prediction to Einstein's father: "It doesn't matter what he does--he will never amount to anything...