Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the most esoteric realms of modern science. Occupying four seats in the big 747's tourist compartment-two for themselves and two for their scientific gear-they were setting off on an extraordinary round-the-world odyssey: an expedition to test Albert Einstein's controversial "clock paradox," which, stated simply, implies that time passes more slowly for a rapidly moving object than for an object at rest...
Atomic Clocks. The paradox, which stems from Einstein's 1905 Special Theory of Relativity, is difficult for the layman to comprehend and even harder for scientists to prove. It means that time itself is different for a speeding automobile, for example, than for one parked at the curb. The natural vibrations of the atoms in the engine of the moving auto, the movement of the clock on the dashboard and even the aging of the passengers occur more slowly than they do in the parked car. These changes are imperceptible at low terrestrial speeds, however, and according...
...westerly one. On the eastbound trip, the airborne clocks would be moving faster (by the speed of the jet) than a reference clock on the surface of the earth, which at the equator spins in an easterly direction at about 1,000 m.p.h. Thus, by Einstein's clock-paradox equation, the clocks on board should lose about one-hundred billionths of a second compared with another extremely accurate atomic clock left behind in Washington. During the westbound flight, however, the plane will be flying against the earth's rotation. To an observer in distant space, the clock...
...sometimes say that I missed the boat, that I should have made a career out of Pop art. But I was never keen on it. I felt there should be more to it than simple artifacts, consumer goods; and I'm still more interested in making layers of paradox and irony...
...Suvero, struggling to produce sculptures that no museum or gallery can readily house, has become a kind of herculean Johnny Appleseed. scattering work wherever he can find space or means to put it: two, for instance, are now in a field outside Chicago. His sculpture presents a real cultural paradox: it is created from scrounged materials with little or no financial backing, and at the same time it is unsalably monumental...