Word: relativistically
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...neither poor nor little, but under grace the indomitable center of faith. Yet among Protestants, and others, Murray discerns a sense that the "modern era" is over, and with it man's reliance on modern shibboleths-the inevitability of progress, the perfectibility of man on earth, the relativist idea that morality is determined by little more than regional or historical fashion. What is the "postmodern" era to be like...
Mind's Eye. If Twain the patriot was a cultural absolutist, Henry James the expatriate was a cultural relativist, full, as he put it, of "the baleful spirit of the cosmopolite-that uncomfortable consequence of seeing many lands and feeling at home in none." The virtue of that defect, as James saw it, was tolerance. Compared to Twain's polemic, The Art of Travel, Critic Morton Dauwen Zabel's splendidly edited sampling of James's travel pieces on England, France, Italy and the U.S., is sunny-tempered and severely self-controlled...
...Harold Jeffreys suggested that if the star actually sideswiped the sun, the pulled-out gas masses would be twirled between the two like a cigaret rolled between two human palms. Professor Edward Arthur Milne, famed relativist, suggested that there may be several different kinds of time, which would eliminate the paradox of the fast rotation speeds. Professor R. A. Lyttleton brushed off and brought out a theory originated by Henry Norris Russell of Princeton, which contemplated the sun as originally a double star, one of which was pulled away by a third star. Sir James Jeans seemed pleased...
...Relativist Leigh Page, 51, of Yale, has worked out new frames of reference for two observers whose relative speeds are accelerating. Taking only the velocity of light as a constant, he has even devised mathematical formulas to serve as rigid measuring rods and regular clocks. These new frames, which Dr. Page believes will be useful for describing atomic motions, require the abandonment of a non-varying space-time interval. Whether his innovations will be worth abandoning that foundation stone is a question for the world jury of Relativity logicians...
...embarrassing solution" was the work of Polish-born Relativist Ludwik Silberstein, 63, of Toronto. Albert Einstein, convinced that Nature is not divided into compartments, wants to confine charged and uncharged particles, gravity and light within a single geometrical framework. Some time ago he concocted relativistic field equations in which particles were treated as "singularities" in the field. Dr. Silberstein carried this out for a two-particle problem, found that, though all stress between the particles disappeared, they remained stationary. Since either Newtonian or Einsteinian gravity would require them to fall together, this seemed to be a reductio ad absurdum...