Word: einsteinian
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Down on the playing field, another version of time exists, Einsteinian in its complexity. Other sportsmen keep an eye on the minute hand, hoping to "kill" the clock. In baseball, time is subservient to circumstance. An inning may last six pitches or 80 minutes. Official games have gone 4½ innings, and 26. That timelessness is at once the game's curse and its glory. At the conclusion of his disastrous World Series with the Mets, Baltimore Manager Earl Weaver philosophized, "You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just...
...close ties between science and state have at times been painful for Soviet researchers. Not many years ago, party ideologues were denouncing cybernetics, modern genetics and even certain aspects of Einsteinian relativity as bourgeois theories that were contrary to Communist orthodoxy. In fact, one reason for the U.S.S.R.'s continuing lag in computer technology is that party pundits once argued that computer-controlled devices and other automated machinery would interfere with the dignity of labor and rob workers of their jobs. Despite such ideological hurdles, however, Soviet scientists have in recent years made remarkable progress...
...happened, Berliners lived through one of history's extraordinary decades. Rid of its tasteless Hohenzollern constraints, and at the same time having avoided the constricting new dogmas of Marxist revolution, Germany blossomed intellectually. In the liberal, democratic '20s, Berlin was feverish with new ideas in atonal music, Einsteinian physics, Freudian psychoanalysis, expressionist art, Bauhaus architecture, Brechtian theater, not to mention kinky sex and despairing occultism, all pursued against a counterpoint of political riot and assassination...
Star Treks. This Einsteinian concept of "time contraction," if proved to be a real physical effect, eventually could help man conquer the vast distances to the stars. Aging more slowly at high speeds, astronauts could make trips that would take longer than their normal terrestrial life spans. If their spacecraft traveled close to the speed of light (186,000 miles per sec.), as a matter of fact, so little time would elapse for the astronauts compared with the experience of people back on earth that they might return home to meet their own great-grandchildren...
...parody of marriage." Together they went to concerts, studied languages, played cello and piano duets. At 15, Penelope passed Oxford's matriculation exams, but was too young to be admitted. She tried a year at Bennington. There the peculiar Americans informed her that she possessed an Einsteinian...