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Invited. Professor Albert Einstein; to be 1931 Cecil Rhodes memorial lecturer at Oxford University. Terms of the bequest require that he spend the summer in Oxford. He accepted...
...quiet voice belonged to Sir James Hopwood Jeans, famed Cambridge astronomer-mathematician. Two months ago he had described his bubble universe in a notable lecture to British scientists and students at Cambridge. Most of them were alraedy familiar with the facts behind the cosmic picture he drew. Dr. Einstein in his original relativity theory stated that space is curved by the matter it contains, that the size of the finite universe is dependent upon matter. Abbé Lemaître, Belgian mathematician, investigated Einstein's universe, found that it would be unstable, would necessarily either expand to infinity...
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...devise a definite formula which will allow this world to establish a more lasting and satisfactory balance between manufacturer and consumer. . . . For this last problem, as I see it, is the most important practical issue that faces the people of the year 1930." So last fortnight wrote Albert Einstein in a statement for the U. S. Press...
Even while learned Professor Einstein was formulating his statement, a learned U. S. attorney, Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne was in Brussels attempting to persuade the world's sugar-growers to adjust production to consumption (TIME, Dec. 15). Although he had previously succeeded in uniting Java growers with the Cubans, he failed to draw the European beet-sugar producers into the agreement. Just as the conference was drawing to a close, the powerful German delegation left Brussels, announced they could not conform to the schedule given them. Private negotiations will continue, for other nations have agreed to the restriction, contingent upon...