Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third Stock Exchange failure -that of Einstein, Ward & Co.-apparently arose from the sharp recent decline in stock prices...
...Story. The tired subeditor of the London Liberal, "that well known organ of the more depressing aspects of advanced thought," sneaks away for a lonely vacation from journalism and a noisy family. He and his flivver, by an accident only Einstein could fitly explain, crash right through the fourth dimension and into Utopia?where he finds a handful of other Earthlings, as bewildered as he at finding themselves translated to a new and perfect universe. The others include those whom Mr. Wells seems to regard as typical public nuisances of a modern civilization?a titled lady, pleasant, but futile...
...average of the results obtained showed a displacement of 1.74 of are which compares favorably with the Einstein prediction of 1.75 seconds of arc and overrides the Newtonian calculations of 87 seconds. But as I have mentioned before the average proves nothing. The real merit of the result lies in the small variation in so many plates. The minimum displacement was 1.58 seconds of arc and the maximum 1.86 seconds. The results were derived from the measurement of 60-80 star displacements on each of four plates. The accuracy of the photography could not be denied, after the consistency...
...parts of the Einstein theory have been verified. The first of these merely accounts for the peculiarity in the precession of the orbit of Mercury. The precession of this orbit does not seem to obey the Newtonian law of gravitation, inasmuch as the precession exceeds by 42 seconds of are a century any possible precession under the Newtonian laws. Einstein's theory accounts for this difference most satisfactorily...
...present," concluded Professor Stetson, "the theory satisfactorily accounts for the irregular processional motion of the orbit of Mercury, and for the displacement of starlight passing through the sun's magnetic field on its way to the earth. If the Einstein theory of relativity is conclusively established, as no doubt it will be, the change in human thinking caused will be as great as that upheaval caused by Copernicus in substituting the heliocentric for the geocentric system of planetary motion, or, in other words, in maintaining that the sun and not the earth is the center of the solar system...