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There is shy Albert Einstein, looking in his old age more & more like a long-suffering and highly sagacious old yak dictating a letter to President Roosevelt which sparked the Manhattan Project. There are the quick-eyed Lise Meitner, the steely Compton, the vivid Fermi, the deceptively rustic Bush, their faces subtly haggard in remembrance of the moments they are reenacting; and there are the faces of Oppenheimer and Rabi, a few minutes before all hell breaks loose in the New Mexican desert, with the shaky exchange-Oppenheimer: "This time, Rob the stakes are really high." Rabi...
...seems true, as you say, that most people will never understand more about Relativity than is told by the limerick quoted in the Einstein article [TIME, July 1]. It is not true, however, that the author will refrain from turning over in his grave should you continue to misquote...
...about except the excellence of French champagne. . . . There is danger of war in Palestine. . Hungary is desperately hungry and gripped by a destructive inflation. . . . China remains a house divided. "Operation Crossroads" is . . . the crowning achievement of centuries of scientific research-a way to end civilization quickly but painfully. Dr. Einstein believes in God . . . and considers Him impotent...
Congratulations to the staff of TIME on the issue of July i. More specific congratulations to the science editor, writers and researchers who turned out the ten columns on Einstein and . . . The Bomb...
...halves, it gets an electrical kick, increasing its speed. Because of the bullet's great speed (it circles the drum in millionths of a second), accurate timing of the kick is all-important. But as the bullet approaches the speed of light, it gains in mass, according to Einstein's relativity principle that at high speeds energy is converted into matter. Result: the heavier particle slows down and the timing system is thrown out of kilter...