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...Isaac Newton (1642-1727) figured out a law which explained pretty well, but not perfectly, how those stellar bodies moved. One body, said he, attracts another body according to their mass (weight, size, momentum) and the distance which separates them. Such is the action of gravity...
General Theory of Relativity. If a man and an egg drop from an airplane at the same moment they will strike the earth, if there is no air resistance, at exactly the same moment. Such is an effect of gravity. Isaac Newton described the effect well with his laws of gravity. Albert Einstein did better with his general theory of relativity. He found a metric (a measure) with which he could subdivide practically everything that happened in his fourth dimensional world. It was a theoretical measuring unit invented by Georg F. B. Riemann (1826-66), mathematician...
...Riemann metric subdivides time, space, undulations, tensions and the other simplest phenomena of the world. By multiplying that unit as though it were (crudely) pounds, gives the force of gravity between, say, the earth and the man or egg falling from the airplane. Gravity is thus not unique as Newton believed. It is a part of the world's pervasive unity. Again Dr. Einstein's suspicion brought him to perception. This...
...Newton and Descartes", Professor Whitehead, Emerson...
Wilson Hill Crosby, of West Newton...