Word: einsteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nursery Duty. Most hospital administrators who have tried self-help programs are pleased with the results. Officials at the Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine say that the system allows them to assign more registered nurses to the seriously ill. The reduced number of nurses in self-help spend much of their time teaching patients how to take care of themselves at home...
Lost Composure. Students at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine follow pregnant women through delivery, providing pre-and postnatal care for them and their babies. M.D. candidates entering the University of Missouri's new medical school in Kansas City this fall made hospital rounds on their first day of classes. Visiting the overcrowded wards of Kansas City General Hospital, the 36 students timidly felt a swollen abdomen, saw a diabetic amputee, and stood in stunned silence around the bed of a patient who died as they were on their way to his room. The school...
...Einstein's prediction has since been backed by indirect experimental evidence. The existence of short-lived sub-atomic particles, for example, seems to be extended when they are speeded up in atom smashers. But there has never been a satisfactory test of the prediction with a clock actually traveling through space. To conduct that test, Hafele, a physicist at Washington University in St. Louis, persuaded the U.S. Naval Observatory to lend him four extremely accurate atomic clocks, each valued at $17,000 and weighing 60 lbs. In addition, the Navy agreed to foot the bill...
...other in a westerly one. On the eastbound trip, the airborne clocks would be moving faster (by the speed of the jet) than a reference clock on the surface of the earth, which at the equator spins in an easterly direction at about 1,000 m.p.h. Thus, by Einstein's clock-paradox equation, the clocks on board should lose about one-hundred billionths of a second compared with another extremely accurate atomic clock left behind in Washington. During the westbound flight, however, the plane will be flying against the earth's rotation. To an observer in distant space...
Some theorists have refused to accept such fantastic consequences of the clock paradox and have sought to disprove it. They have even used the paradox in an effort to challenge all of relativity; for Einstein himself admitted that if only one part of his theory proved wrong, its whole finely structured mathematical edifice would crumble. In the September issue of Physics Today, Physicist Mendel Sachs takes a different tack. He contends that the Einstein theory and equations are correct, but that Einstein misinterpreted the equations in stating the clock paradox. A relativity theorist himself at the State University...