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...that many astronomers consider the Expanding Universe may be an illusion, have sought some other cause for the redshift in the spectrum. A decrease in Planck's constant h (energy of light multiplied by its vibration period) might be such a cause. Last year Britain's potent Theorist Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac suggested that the gravitational constant and certain others were dependent on t, the age of the universe, and were therefore slowly altering as the universe gets older. Last month in the Physical Review Mathematicians Samuel Sambursky and Max Schiffer of the Hebrew University in Palestine presented...
...Roosevelt might have picked a senatorial progressive who has fought many political battles for the administration or be might have chosen a brilliant professor who has done much to reshape legal thinking. But such an appointee would inevitably have been scored as just a partisan agent or an impractical theorist. By appointing a lawyer who has won the admiration of administration critics, the President has accomplished his purpose without offending a large block of people whose confidence and cooperation are desirable...
Prall, the subtle theorist of esthetic problems, is evidently irritated beyond endurance by Sorokin's treatment. "In fact," Prall cries out, "Professor Sorokin rejects all art; the term means to him only 'subject matter' ". According to Prall, it would be absurd to accept Professor Sorokin's terms, and "as a guide to the fluctuations (of art) through the centuries a blind man is no help...
...educational romanticist Hutchins of Chicago University predicted that the national scholarships would be unsuccessful. Unfortunately the theorist did not take into consideration the practicality of the scientist, for the gradual introduction and extension of the plan have insured its success. President Conant felt that the idea provided a chance, well worth society's while to offer, for a few individuals of exceptional character and ability who lacked financial means to develop their intellect in a great university such as Harvard...
...with financial rewards about the same except for a very few top men. The profit motive extends to the industrial laboratory as it does to other business functions and the freedom one has had in the academic laboratory is greatly curtailed. The practical and experimental scientist rather than the theorist will find satisfaction in industrial research...