Word: einsteins
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Hoyle and Fowler are disputed by other scientists who maintain that gravitational collapse of such a very massive star would quickly result in a mind-boggling consequence: the Schwarzschild singularity. In 1916, German Astronomer Karl Schwarzschild used Einstein's equations to demonstrate that very massive bodies can literally gravitate themselves out of the observable universe. When such stars contract to a critical size during catastrophic collapse, Schwarzschild calculated, their gravity becomes so strong that it prevents any matter, or even radiation, from escaping into space. As a result, the stars simply disappear from view; they would be detectable only...
Tireless Rounds. There was chamber music with some of the "local talent" like Heifetz and Piatigorsky. Once, the story goes, Albert Einstein began to play a violin and piano sonata with Rubinstein. Einstein missed a cue in one passage and came in four beats late. They started again, and again Einstein flubbed. They began once more, and the great scientist again missed the cue. Finally, the exasperated Rubinstein cried, "For God's sake, Professor, can't you even count up to four...
...predict with certainty what will occur when 40 Eridani-A moves in front of X, but the distant event will give scientists a rare opportunity to test an equally far-out and still unproven deduction from Albert Einstein's theories of relativity. Instead of simply blocking the light from a distant star that it is eclipsing, Einstein predicted, the nearer star would create a lens-like effect that would actually intensify the image of the eclipsed star, increasing its brightness perhaps more than 1,000 times. The phenomenon would be caused by the closer star's strong gravitational...
Star X is so dim and distant, says Feibelman, that its brightening could probably not be detected by visual or photographic observations through a telescope. But photoelectric measurements could confirm Einstein's prediction...
Philosophy cannot and need not make sense to the layman in every detail; excerpts from Aristotle or Hegel (or, for that matter, Einstein) may also seem like gibberish to the uninitiated. But it is significant that the analytic and phenomenological thinkers don't even understand one another...