Word: fields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months the U.S. embassy in Mexico reported nervously that Schlesinger's obstinacy was worsening the situation. Warned the embassy: "Because of the breakdown, the Mexicans have reversed their field completely on gas and oil development." The State Department and National Security Council were both anxious about Schlesinger's inflexibility and told the President so. Nonetheless, Schlesinger held to his bargaining position that the Mexican price would be unfair to U.S. and Canadian producers. That view was disputed by many, but the chief criticism of Schlesinger was that his approach was aloof and arrogant...
...cross-legged on the floor, guitar in hand, singing his own self-mocking lyrics, is to know a different person. And there is no doubt about his capacity to analyze and understand the complex issues of energy; he is the match of any expert in the field. It is his ability to lead that is questioned...
Einstein, however, was determined to go his own way. Despite criticism he spent much of the second half of his life pursuing the development of what scientists call a unified field theory. In Einstein's time, this meant an all encompassing mathematical construct that would unite under a single set of equations not only gravity but also electromagnetism. Since then the task has become even more difficult, with the discovery of two other basic forces: the nuclear forces. Most
...some extent, true, although work by Physicists Steven Weinberg of Harvard and Abdus Salam of London's Imperial College of Science and Technology suggests that Einstein's dream of a unified field theory may some day be realized. There is also a glimmer in the esoteric new work on such baffling mathematical concepts as "supergravity" and "twistors" of possibly achieving a union of Einstein's beloved relativity and the quanta that he so distrusted...
...test of this effect, expanded from the hypothetical elevator into a global picture by his field equations, that finally brought Einstein worldwide attention. General relativity indicated that when light from a distant star passes very close to the sun on its way to earth, it should be deflected by solar gravity, thereby shifting the star's position in the sky. The amount of shift, Einstein calculated, should be 1.75 seconds of arc?a small variation, but one discernible by astronomers of the day. But how could astronomers photograph a star nearly in line with the sun when it would certainly...