Word: emp
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Einstein boldly disregarded the notion of the ether. Then he went on to state two postulates: 1) An experiment can detect only relative motion, that is, the motion of one observer with respect to an other. 2) Regardless of the motion of its source, light always moves through emp ty space at a constant speed (this seems to violate common sense, which suggests that light projected forward from a moving spacecraft, like a bullet fired from a plane, would travel at a speed equal to its velocity plus that of the craft). From these statements, using thought experiments and simple...
...Paul Bocuse (L'Empéreur), 49, owner of a famed restaurant near Lyon, whose leadership of the new cuisine recently earned him the Legion of Honor from President Giscard d'Estaing...
...shortened form of tenno heika, which the Japanese use when referring to their Emperor. Literally, ten means "heaven," no means "king," and heika means "his majesty." But the phrase Ten-chan is idiomatic. When I asked one friend how he would render it into English, he unhesitatingly replied: "Emp...