Word: einsteinian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toynbee's repudiation of the nation as history's central fact was Copernican, it also had an Einsteinian effect. For the relations of civilizations could not be investigated without introducing a new space-time factor into the study of history. Where, before, there had been nations, dramatizing their buzzing brevity upon the linear scale of history, there were, from Toynbee's vantage point, vertical progressions of human effort. Where there had been a plane, there was now chasmic depth, the all but unimaginable tract of time...
...theory of "curved space." Einstein's doctrine, applied to study of the distant galaxies, which seem to be rushing away from the earth at enormous speed, had made the universe appear too young, said Señor Erro. It seemed only a billion years old by Einsteinian reckoning. But geologists have pretty well proved that even the earth is twice as old as that...
...possess enough keys to play all the notes in music. (One key, for example, must do for both F sharp and G flat.) The compromise by which piano strings are tuned to represent musical tones that are close in pitch, but not identical, involves a mathematical theory of Einsteinian complexity.* Practically, the problem is to put the piano systematically and artistically out of tune, by equalizing the tonal distances between the black & white keys. In getting each note of the piano just enough out of tune, the piano tuner cannot trust to any such simple measuring device...
...brusquely torn up John Lewis' proposed Illinois mine contract (TIME, Oct. 25). In its place, WLB offered a contract so tortured in its reasoning, so filled with economic Greek, that it took WLB's own statisticians 48 hours to decipher it, and put them through Einsteinian mathematics to justify it. Yet WLB's contract came within $2.50 a week of giving John Lewis' miners what they would have got under the Illinois contract: a weekly wage of $55.50 compared to $58-$10 more than the present rate...