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...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...
...include many or most of the best minds in this country. Consistently I found at M.I.T. that the radicals were "A" students, primarily in the natural sciences, not humanities. As in the past, today's leading professors are also the more socially concerned. In the older generation, they were Einstein, Morrison, Oppenheimer, Zacharias, Today, also, they are famous names: Chomsky, Luria, Kampf, Spock, Lynd, Wald. It can be generalized that such persons are not always proud of their association with their respective institutions, but they welcome the security within hostile territory and see "no better place...
...idea of promoting other animal characters is good [Feb. 16], but your description of what Peter Paramecium would sure that they are always right. In the long run, I think history will be more inclined to rate highly men like Russell and Einstein than the Hitlers, Alexander Throttlebottoms and Dorian Grays we choose as leaders...
...results of the experiment were first reported last June, many scientists were outspokenly skeptical. University of Maryland Physicist Joseph Weber announced that after more than ten years of effort, he had finally detected the waves that transmit gravitational energy across space. These gravity waves had been postulated by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity in 1916 but never before observed. Last week Weber converted many of the doubters. Over the last six months, he told the American Physical Society, he had recorded 200 distinct bursts of gravitational radiation from far out in space...