Word: einsteinian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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. The New York tabloid Daily News headlines: SILBER TOPS EIN WHEN STEIN MEETS STEIN...
...considered as waves as well as corpuscles-hence as abstractions. Reduced to its simplest terms, Professor Bern's latest work elevates them to the status of physical entities. By introducing a symbol to represent the electron's radius, by investing the electron with the four Einsteinian dimensions of time & space (which are handled symmetrically as four independent variables), Professor Born has made the old theory and the new lie down side by side in the same equation...
...coming out squarely against brown-shirted antiSemitism, Blue-Shirt Locker-Lampson placed his movement in line to receive contributions from wealthy British Jews. In Berlin next day he was called a "knight of opportunism" by Chancellor Hitler's personal newsorgan Der Völkischer Beobachter which headlined EINSTEINIAN JEW SHOW IN HOUSE OF COMMONS! ¶Cheered an official announcement that the No. 2 Hitlerite, paunchy Captain Hermann Wilhelm Goring, German Air Minister and Prussian Premier, had applied to His Majesty's Government for permission to purchase "police airplanes" in England (contrary to Germany's treaty obligations...
...presenting a reasonable picture of a pulsating universe. It is true, reasoned Dr. Tolman, that the stars are blazing into heat & light, that as far as we can see the universe is expanding, and some eon may become dull chaos, as the Cambridge physicists reason. But, if we use Einsteinian concepts, we realize that heat & light are ponderable, that the heat & light of an airplane in flight differ subtly from the heat & light of a household furnace, that gravity may entrain the heat & light emitted by blazing stars. In such case, gravity catches hold of the whole expanding universe, pulls...
...predicted by the late Charles Fort, when the years B. C. and A. D., lumped together, will be referred to as the period B. W. (Before Witchcraft), professors of the new regime will, like the ancient alchemists, need paraphernalia to advertise their trade. Post-Einsteinian runes will decorate their doors, philosopher's stones, alembics, superhuman skeletons their cells. From their ceilings (relatively) will hang dried four-dimen-sional alligators-their entrails furnished by alligator-stuffers like Author Fort. Some fine wads of his superior stuffing are to be found in this book...