Word: einsteins
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...amplified on board and transmitted back to earth. The entire round trip took only about 43 minutes, but the results may be momentous for all of physics. Last week, at a conference on gravity at Caltech, the experimenters reported that they had gathered dramatic new evidence in support of Einstein's 1916 General Theory of Relativity...
Such support was needed. Although Einstein's theory offers the most comprehensive explanation of gravity since Newton formulated his gravitational laws, it has recently encountered its most serious challenge. One consequence of the theory is that light and other electromagnetic waves should be measurably bent when passing through a strong gravitational field. Contesting Einstein's equations, Physicists Robert Dicke of Princeton and Carl Brans of Loyola University (New Orleans) argued that such waves are bent to a lesser extent than Einstein had predicted. Though subtle and wrapped in complex mathematics, the differences in the two theories are extremely...
...path would be curved, not straight. The Brans-Dicke theory, on the other hand, predicts less curvature and a slowdown of only 186 millionths of a second. While such bending has been measured before, the tests have never been accurate enough to make a firm case for either the Einstein or Brans-Dicke theory...
...idea is that some Washington technocrats decide to test Einstein's theory that the past and the future coexist with the present. They persuade a spongelike commercial artist to live in the doughty old Dakota apartment building overlooking Central Park and, surrounded by artifacts of the time, hypnotize himself back eighty years. Nothing is simpler. The past is apparently right behind the eyeball. In no time the fellow is shuttling between centuries, meddling with history and falling in love with a girl who, he reminds himself, died some decades...
Somewhere in the Yard I read a leaflet with a quotation from Albert Einstein, saying that if he could start all over again he would prefer to be a plumber or peddler. Then at least he would have had some degree of freedom and people would have interfered less with his life. As a Fellow of the Center for International Affairs I felt like a peddler enjoying maximum freedom in the nine months I have spent here. It therefore required a mental exercise to follow the reasoning of the members of NAC who, in their "mill-in" of last week...