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Ever felt like you were standing on shifting sands? A scientific study of the heavens currently doing the media rounds suggests we might be on the verge of triggering another Einstein-like explosion in our view of the universe: the laws of physics, apparently, are mutable; constants like the speed of light may change slightly over time. Pretty paradigm-shattering stuff, but for my psyche it wasn't nearly as hard to handle as the latest Palm Pilot story...
...Albert Einstein never did turn relativity into what he always meant it to be - just one part of a "unified field theory," a single set of universal laws marrying the Newtonian and subatomic worlds. He died bemoaning the spread of probability-based quantum physics - "God does not play dice with the universe," he famously insisted - but he never could top it, and succeeding generations of scientists haven?t come much closer...
...turns out maybe he had some bad data. A team of astrophysicists, peering into deep space through the world?s largest single telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, have found what they say are small variations in the "fine structure constant" - the physical constant on which all others, including Einstein?s own "c," (the speed of light) are built...
...Lewis Show's set, still under construction, Lewis is intensely earnest--at MTV, she took on sober-minded topics like mental-health awareness and "driving while black," even though the job also required reporting from the Beach House. Her determined high-mindedness extends to the names of her Chihuahuas, Einstein and Mozart...
...years I have been trying to persuade people that George W. Bush, although no Einstein, is not stupid. Now comes word he is returning to Texas for most of August. He could have gone to Kennebunkport, Maine, instead. I give up. If you put his brain in a duck, it would fly north for the winter...