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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Astonishing as these effects seem, they have all been verified. In designing nuclear accelerators, for example, scientists must take into account the fact that subatomic particles whipped to speeds approaching the velocity of light will appear to increase in mass. Furthermore, particles called muons, which at rest exist for only very short spans of time before decaying into other particles, are found to live far longer at high velocities...
Einstein's awesome output in that miracle year of 1905 was as astounding as its implications In fact, nothing quite like it had occurred since 1666, when New ton, at 23, had left Cambridge and taken refuge in Lincolnshire from the bubonic plague and in that isolation studied the spectrum of light, invented calculus and aid the groundwork for his universal theory of gravitation and motion...
...easy to see why Einstein aroused ire. Revolutionary in nature, his ideas about space and time collided directly with ancient prejudices and seemed to contradict everyday experience. In ad dition, there were his outspoken antinationalism and, ironically in light of his own lack of belief in formal religion, the fact that he was a Jew. But criticism abroad was muted compared with that in Germany, where Jews were being made the scapegoats for loss of the war and Einstein's pacifism was bitterly remembered. Einstein and his "Jewish physics" became the object of increasingly scurrilous denunciations. Fellow German scientists turned...
...fact, fame had been a long time coming. For years even Haley, who is now 57, did not know that he was a writer. He got only mediocre grades in high school, and after two years in a North Carolina teach ers college he became a cook in the Coast Guard, where he stayed for 20 years. He started writing to relieve the bore dom of life aboard ship, and when he left the service in 1959 he decided on even more hazardous duty, the life of the freelance journalist...
...done, we felt the manuscript lacked that all-important dramatic tension." And from the office of Knox Burger after two follow-up letters from Ross: "I'm very sorry, but we have no record of having received your MS. or postage.' Kosinski is philosophical about the fact that his award-winning, experimental novel rang no bells: "Thank God it means different things to different people. It was written ten years ago, and how many politicians would be recognized from what they said ten years...