Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gravity Waves. Recording those tiny variations on the moon could go a long way toward settling an argument currently raging among physicists. Several years ago, University of Maryland Physicist Joseph Weber astonished his colleagues with the announcement that he had detected gravity waves. Predicted by Einstein's 1916 general theory of relativity, such waves are the vehicles presumed to transmit gravitational energy across space. Critics have contended that Weber's detectors probably sensed some of the earth's own rumblings. But if sudden variations in gravity are now simultaneously picked up by a detector on the moon...
...Manhattan's Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. were covered with complex mathematical formulas. According to the scientist who made the catalogue, the figures were comprehensible only to about 250 people in the world. Still, for those baffled by the scientific thoughts of the late Albeit Einstein, there were bits of less technical information to be gleaned: the author of E=m 2 ate eggs and drank tomato juice (he spilled some on his work) and bequeathed to history an unexplained (and here freely translated) bit of verse: I shan't be absent, little snookie, Though...
...father loved classical music, symphonic music, especially Bach, Verdi, Puccini. He played the violin, and he was very glad to see that I started to play the piano. My father was very kind, very gentle with me..." A reminiscence by some young Einstein? Not at all. The speaker was Romano Mussolini, son of Italy's Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, arriving in New York on tour as a jazz pianist. Young Mussolini, who bills himself as "a legendary name in Italian jazz," says he is a disciple of Duke Ellington and offers a repertoire ranging from Summertime to a syncopated...
...scientists refined their measurement skills, they realized more and more the significance of light's speed. By the time it was established that all electromagnetic waves move at the velocity of light in a vacuum, that speed was recognized as a constant of nature. Einstein's theories hold that nothing in the universe can ever move faster. The constant (represented by the letter c) appears in his famous equation E=mc², the formula for the conversion of mass into energy, which was grimly proven July 16, 1945 in the first atomic blast at Alamogordo...
...good part of this attitude is Mailer's obvious awe of power and respect for professionalism, wherever found. But Nixon is even more in Mailer's eyes, not merely a political genius but an artist of the banal, "the Einstein of the mediocre and the inert." In an astute account of the psychological balance-sheet, Mailer sees that one egg thrown at a Republican matron by an antiwar demonstrator "can mop up the guilt of five hundred bombs" dropped on Viet...