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...tiny number (.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 006 6 . . .), but it shook the scientific world. The little quanta of energy are the building stones of the universe, far more fundamental than big, clumsy atoms or even protons or electrons. Out of their discovery grew Einstein's relativity, including his historic proof, not then considered fraught with danger to civilization, that matter is equivalent to energy. Out of it grew Niels Bohr's description of the atom as a sort of sun surrounded by electron planets which jump from orbit to orbit emitting quanta of light...
This week Albert Einstein announced what might be the most important scientific news in many decades: he had developed a new "Generalized Theory of Gravitation" which attempts to interrelate all known physical phenomena. The full theory, will be published in February by Princeton University Press in the third edition of Einstein's The Meaning of Relativity. But the heart of the theory is contained in four equations...
Since both electromagnetism and gravitation are properties of matter, scientists are sure that they must be connected somehow. Since about 1920, the search for a connection has occupied many theoretical physicists. Einstein himself thought he had found the secret in 1935, but later decided he was on the wrong track. This time he may have succeeded...
...final judgment can be reached until the new theory is checked experimentally. Einstein's relativity was proved rather simply by actually observing the shift it predicted in the apparent position of stars. Checking his latest theory will be harder. Said Einstein: "Due to mathematical difficulties, I have not yet found a practicable way to confront the results of the theory with experimental evidence...
...Einstein does establish his new theory, it will be the high point of his career, and another climax in the great scientific revolution which he and a few colleagues started nearly 50 years ago (see THE HALF CENTURY...