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...propagation of electromagnetic waves. He had no success, which was probably just as well. Fermi lived his professional life in the strange new world of mathematical physics; Laura did not try to follow him into his abstract jungle. She learned how to appreciate her husband in spite of quanta and nucleons...
Hardly anyone accepted Einstein's challenge. More popular with physicists was a view derived from quantum mechanics, which holds that the universe is made up of small particles (quanta) that behave, individually, as if they were governed by mere chance. Einstein does not accept this. "I cannot believe," he remarked, "that God plays dice with the cosmos...
More than three years ago, Albert Einstein announced (in the third edition of his book, The Meaning of Relativity) that he had developed an overall theory to account for both gravitation and small-scale phenomena, such as the quanta of energy that are studied in atomic physics (TIME, Jan. 2, 1950). Hardly any theoretical physicists came to his support, though a "unified theory" is what many of them are looking for most eagerly...
Some of these links are already beginning to appear. Physics and psychology, for instance, were once miles apart, one dealing with a mechanistic universe made up of measurable and observable particles, the other with fleeting and intangible emotion. But in the world of quanta, the physicists have begun to believe that forces can be transmitted where no particles exist -on waves as fleeting, intangible and unpredictable as emotion itself. In the eyes of both physicists and psychologists, therefore, man and the universe are beginning to present a common problem: the study of forces that cannot be visualized and that follow...
...together instead of setting them farther apart? Last week, at New York University, a group of scholars drawn from five major campuses had a bold suggestion: a special course, called "the frontier of knowledge," that covers everything from plants to paleontology, from the stars to the "world of quanta...