Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small Irish jumper, Sir Francis Towle's Airgead Sios, raced ahead of the field at the start. Jump after jump he took beautifully until the tenth fence, just beyond Valentine's Brook, there he fell and threw his jockey. Delachance, the American favorite, swept into the lead, was still pacing the pack over the water jump before the grandstand, when Rock Lad, only Canadian-owned horse in the race, fell. He crawled out with a broken back. An ambulance drove out on the track to destroy him and remove his body, as Delachance led 18 survivors...
...ancient university and in Berlin, lectured in Lwów, spent some years in England's Cambridge as a Rockefeller fellow, joined the Institute at Princeton in 1936. In Cambridge he helped Physicist Max Born, another German exile (now at Edinburgh), in the formulation of a field theory which bridges modern Quantum Mechanics and the 19th-Century electro-magnetic wave equations of Scotland's brilliant James Clerk Maxwell (TIME, Sept...
Early experiments with electricity and magnetism disturbed this mechanical view. Faraday and Oersted showed that a moving magnet produces an electric field, that a moving electric charge produces a magnetic field. The lines of force in these fields were not arranged in Newtonian straight lines but in curves. After curved fields in space came waves of energy. The wave theory of light, which had been opposed by Newton, was picked up again because it was the only way to explain certain phenomena-for example, the diffraction rings produced when light passes through a small aperture. Before electro-magnetic waves...
...first experimental confirmation was the bending of starlight in the gravitational field of the sun, observed during a solar eclipse in 1919. Others are the "stretching" (increased wave length) of light from heavy stars, the conversion of mass into energy in the laboratory, the recoil of a body which emits light. Relativity also explains eccentricities in Mercury's orbit, which had remained a mystery under Newtonian mechanics. Atom-smashers who build cyclotrons (machines in which atomic projectiles are whirled by electric and magnetic fields) take into careful consideration the Relativistic increase in mass of fast particles. In brief, Relativity...
Unity? The Quantum Theory is incapable of dealing with the large-scale cosmos. Relativity can treat individual particles only as "singularities" (i.e., anomalies) in the space-time field-a far feebler picture than that provided by Quantum Theory. Many years ago Einstein said he would devote the rest of his life to the research for a Unified Field Theory which would comprehend all natural phenomena. He knows that such a fantastically ambitious goal will never be reached by a straight frontal attack. He has been probing around it, looking for avenues of approach, circuitously groping toward unity. Nearly a decade...