Word: minding
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...consulted nearly a dozen leading experts. He also interviewed several of Einstein's former associates and his longtime secretary, Helen Dukas. For Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and Reporter-Researcher F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt, working on this week's story was also a brain-stretching experience. "General relativity blows your mind," reports Jaroff. "What we set out to do was to give mil lions of intelligent readers a glimmering of what relativity is, and what it was that led Einstein to it." glimmer is the latest in a long series of illuminating articles Jaroff and his staff have offered readers...
Bravo for Richard Mitchell [Jan. 29]. Every city in the U.S. that has a newspaper, TV station or radio station needs an Underground Grammarian to guard against further deterioration of the English language and to re-create in the mind and ear of the public a sense of pride in the ability to communicate accurately...
...Buchwald, humor columnist, on Coca-Cola's Chinese franchise: "I don't mind 800 million Chinese drinking a bottle a day, but I don't want them to bring back the empties...
...Jewish orthodoxy. But this phase passed soon after he began studying science, math and philosophy on his own. He was especially enamored of a basic math text?his "holy geometry booklet." At 16, he devised one of his first "thought experiments." These can only be done in the mind, not in a laboratory, and would eventually lead him to his stunning theories. In this case, he imagined what a light wave would look like to an observer riding along with...
Meanwhile, Einstein's restless mind had turned from special relativity's uniform motion to the greater complexities of accelerated movements. These are motions involving changes in velocity: as when the earth's gravity draws an object toward the ground, the object's velocity increases by 9.8 meters (32 ft.) per second each second. Einstein took an approach entirely different from Newton. The 17th century master had noted what seemed to be a remarkable coincidence: gravity acted in the same way on all bodies, regardless of their mass. That could be shown by an apocryphal experiment of Galileo's in which...