Word: einstein
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...year was 1904, and scattered about Europe half a dozen men, unacquainted with one another, were lighting the fuse of the post-Victorian revolution-Einstein, Freud, Lenin, Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky. But they didn't matter at all. For in Cambridge, England, 24-year-old Lytton Strachey was loudly proclaiming that he and his fellow members of the Apostles, a small society of intellectuals, were about to inherit the earth. They never quite made it, but in their later guise as the Bloomsbury Group-Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell among others-they did become...
...papers of BeHrand Russell, 95. There is enough of the stuff (150,000 items) to fill dozens of trunks-work sheets of Russell's milestone thought in philosophy and mathematics, his voluminous correspondence with such pen pals as Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, Albert Einstein and Ho Chi Minh. Record price...
Kaysen is eager to take full advantage of the place that made Albert Einstein exclaim, "Ah, Heaven!" when he first arrived. But times have changed since Einstein's day, and Kaysen has had to spend much of his time raising money to support the Institute's roughly 200 permanent and visiting members...
Painstaking preparations paid off. As Mercury began to move behind the sun, M.I.T. computers detected increasing delays in the return of radar signals slowed by the sun's gravitational field. Plotted against the theoretical delays predicted by the Einstein equations, the actual delay time formed a remarkably similar curve, increasing to approximately one five-thousandth of a second just before Mercury passed behind...
Test results, which Shapiro regards as only preliminary, could be inaccurate by as much as 20%, and still leave some room for doubt about relativity. But refinements in the radar technique could soon reduce the uncertainty to less than 1%, he says, and further confirm or definitely overthrow Einstein's general relativity...