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Four o'clock in the morning, seven hours later, Alfonso's car roared down to the docks at Cartagena. Police kept back the crowd. A little group of naval officers stood huddled at the end of the pier in the starlight. The Captain's barge from the cruiser Principe Alfonso rose and fell with the tide. King Alfonso in a brown overcoat and grey felt hat jumped from his car, strode forward nervously puffing a cigaret. Grey-haired Admiral Magaz, onetime member of Dictator Primo de Rivera's cabinet advanced snuffling con solations. Alfonso threw aside his cigaret...
...past month Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble, astronomer of Mt. Wilson Observatory, has been telling Dr. Albert Einstein what he has seen through his big telescope. He has carefully described the red shift in starlight which he is studying with his fellow astronomer, Dr. Milton La Salle Humason. At the same time, a neighbor, Dr. Richard Chace Tolman, physicist of California Institute of Technology, has been explaining his interpretation of Dr. Hubble's starlight news to Dr. Einstein. It appears to him that the Universe is not static as Dr. Einstein has asserted, but constantly enlarging in size, changing...
...Wilson telescope. One evening all the California scientists had a banquet, invited Dr. Einstein as guest of honor. He spoke to them in German, complimented the works of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson who is remeasuring light, Mt. Wilson's Dr. Hubble who measured the red shift in starlight, and Professor Tolman who believes with Sir James Hopwood Jeans that the universe is "exploding" (TIME, Jan. 5). After having been lectured to, Dr. Einstein gave a lecture himself last week. Before a class of 30 he talked for 90 minutes. While he rolled German words about his tongue,* he scrawled...
...subjects of the six lectures are as follows: 1. "Study of Starlight: brightness, colors, spectra"; 2. "Temperatures, Dimensions, and Masses of the Stars: relations between mass and luminosity"; 3. "Variable and Temporary Stars: relation between period and luminosity"; 4. "Interpretation of Stellar Spectra: ionization and consequences, stellar atmospheres"; 5. "The Same, continued"; 6. "The Interior of a Star: problems of constitution and Evolution...
Toward Emptiness. Many physicists are talking today about an expanding universe. The "red shift" observed in starlight has been interpreted by some to demonstrate that the stars of the universe are rushing away from each other like a panic-stricken crowd (TIME, Oct. 6, Jan. 5). Last week Dr. Albert Einstein told newsgatherers in Pasadena that he was anxious to talk to Mt. Wilson astronomers about their observations of the red shift. At the same time in Cleveland, Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of Harvard Astronomical Observatory, reported some data about the expanding universe which he expects to repeat later...