Word: luebeck
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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Small income and cultural preferences send the Einsteins to the popular, but not costly, German water resorts for their vacations. Last summer, when the professor was so weak from illness, they were at Luebeck, old Hanseatic town on the Baltic. There Dr. Einstein lolled about in his beach chair or in his sailboat. He likes placid sailing. Once the sails are fixed he stretches out, hands under his head, and idly watches the sky. This he will do for hours...
Working in his Berlin study, musing in his sailboat on Wannsee, lolling in his beach chair at Luebeck, Albert Einstein figured out a new metric. It lies between Euclid's and Riemann's conceptions. It shows that gravity, electricity, magnetism. everything is a logical, not chance, part of the world. It enabled him last week to phrase in mathematical terms a theory by which "everything in the world" can be explained...
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