Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week it did. Radio rushed in where such popular angels as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans have tried to tread: to explain the Einstein theory of relativity. It also tried to make the instruction painless-and all in one half hour's time...
...fourth dimension (time) : "Motion and the passage of light take time, [therefore] time is a dimension of measurement itself." Pun Pudding. These tiny pills of theory were carefully concealed in a pudding of puns, skits and music. Human Adventure, setting out to be both entertaining and educational about Einstein, was only partly instructive, not wholly entertaining. Fadiman tried to give his hearers a glimmer of the theory's importance : atomic scientists had used it, he said, in calculating the amount of energy in an atom. Concluded Fadiman: "Before Einstein, there was one essential error in the logic of physics...
scientific observer stationed . . . on earth as the center of all things, and his observations of the laws of nature, the correct ones. The Einstein Theory made the laws of nature equally valid for all observers...
...Times printed the 55½-column full text of the Versailles Treaty, Einstein's own (and almost universally incomprehensible) explanation of his Field Theories, old and new, in four columns...
...their projectiles than was released in the breakup. Now, an explosion of about 200,000,000 electron-volts was touched off by idling neutrons of less than one electron-volt. Matter equal to about one-fifth of a neutron's mass was converted into energy according to the Einstein formula...