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Fortunately, there are enough diehard fans or lucky souls already on intersession that most of us can hold our own when we venture out of Cambridge next weekend. For those of you who were locked in a library yesterday, for those who still say "Einstein" instead of "Bill Walsh" when asked to name a genius, a little research into yesterday's happenings in Miami would be in order. And I don't mean the riots in Overtown...
Since well before Albert Einstein, physicists have been conjuring up concepts that defy common sense. Consider just a few of the far-out notions now accepted by the scientific community: clocks that tick slower when they ride on rockets, black holes with the mass of a million stars compressed into a volume smaller than that of an atom, and subatomic particles whose behavior depends on whether they are being watched...
...idea of wormholes comes directly from the accepted concepts of general relativity. In that theory, Einstein argued that very massive or dense objects distort space and time around them. One possible distortion is in the form of a tube that can lead anywhere in the universe -- even to a spot billions of light-years away. The name wormhole comes about by analogy: imagine a fly on an apple. The only way the fly can reach the apple's other side is the long way, over the fruit's surface. But a worm could bore a tunnel through the apple, shortening...
...galactic void or deep within the vessels and sinews of the human body: " 'Watch what's coming.' All eyes turned ahead. A blue- green corpuscle was bumping along ahead of them." Some follow the adventures of Sherlock Holmes in outer space; some track the steps of Albert Einstein in his Princeton office: "He could not believe that the universe would be so entirely in the grip of chance. 'God may be subtle,' he once said. 'But he is not malicious...
...tendency to feel that knowledge must be gained from a structural source also creates an alienating process which restricts independent thought. As a child, Albert Einstein's poor academic performance led his teachers to think that he was mentally retarded. In reality, he was simply uninspired by the whole experience...