Word: einsteins
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Inside the theater, the pace picks up immediately. A laboratory set reveals the head of Walt Disney, played by Lorenzo Moreno '00, flanked by Albert Einstein (Scott Brown '98) and Mary Lou Retton (Kate DeLima '97). Moreno uses his head to wonderful effect, betraying 1,001 emotions throughout the course of the play...
...Land" and Texas goes by "Lone Star Land." The world is high on the opiate of Celebration, and perception is sugar-coated and mouse-eared. Information is doled out by such outrageous characters as a Mary Lou Retton (Kate E. DeLima '97) who cartwheels cross stage and an Albert Einstein (Scott M. Brown '98) who can't manage to maintain his mustache...
...science. How about some humility, like the kind Sir Isaac Newton had when he saw himself as "a boy playing on the sea-shore...now and then finding a smoother pebble...whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." With the inner universe waiting for an Einstein to formulate a unified theory of mind and body, there is much to be done. Maybe then we will understand those people who think we know it all. ISRAEL SPIEGLER, Chair Information Systems Department Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv...
...fact, the book's theory makes a degree of sense. Science is usually an incremental enterprise, with most researchers toiling in the experimental thickets, trying to hack out a little clearing of enlightenment. Occasionally, however, a Darwin or Einstein comes along and with a flash of insight as blinding as a thermonuclear airburst, clears the entire landscape. Down below, ordinary scientists blink disbelievingly at their sudden ability to see from horizon to horizon. But their sense of wonder is tempered by regret. Tending your tiny patch seems like pulling weeds compared with such intellectual clear cutting...
That doesn't necessarily mean the theory is correct, of course. As Einstein's example makes clear, very smart people sometimes tilt at windmills. And even in the case of his greatest success, the General Theory of Relativity, Einstein had to wait patiently for experimentalists to go out and verify its predictions. Until they did, the theory was simply a set of clever equations. The same holds true today for superstring theory; unfortunately, it would take an atom smasher thousands of times as powerful as any on Earth to test it directly--at least in its current version...