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TIMES change. Before the war, what was missing from the American scene was "a good five-cent cigar." One of the Gods of the present generation is Science, and the efforts of Wells, Durant Eddington, Jeans, and others to explain what the new theoretical science means left unsatisfied the persistent statement that "what this country needs is a good two-dollar explanation of Relativity...
...formulae are completely left out and the words are short and there are many illustrations and metaphors, the subject matter is inherently difficult. Einstein, of course, can be expected to understand his own theory more clearly than any of his popularizers, and much more clearly than they can he explain the ideas to the laymen. Nevertheless a good deal of concentration is required to follow each step in the thought, and a good understanding of the content must require several rereadings. One of the most pleasant features of the book is the absence of any dramatization of the subject...
...hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case. If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his observations. He will never be able to compare his picture with the real mechanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility or the meaning of such a comparison...
...Brown's exposition each share of common stock was "worth" on December 31, 1936, about $31. Yet Mr. Brown's report points out that the company in March 1937 was able to sell 100,000 shares of its common stock at $100 per share. Let Mr. Brown explain how he was able to sell stock which he says was "worth" $31 per share for a consideration of $100 per share...
Even Heavyweight von Helmholtz was unable to explain what made the simplest wheels of a musical composition go round. But ever since his time rubber-gloved scientists have been trying to get music and musicians into test tubes and under microscopes. Today's No. 1 and 2 musical microbe hunters are flute-playing, Einstein-disputing Professor Dayton C. Miller of Cleveland's Case School of Applied Science, and Iowa State University's dapper, white-haired Dean Emeritus Carl Emil Seashore. While Physicist Miller has succeeded in taking up where the doughty von Helmholtz left off, Psychologist Seashore...