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...Project when it was painted eight years ago. It was meant to portray 100 years of Iowa history. It was painted in the neat, stiff manner which Grant Wood made famous, and just to make its immortality a sure bet, it was done in the favorite medium of Renaissance art, egg tempera...
...murderer is convincing enough, but it is a job unfinished. He forgets the depth of the character in completely failing to expose that "soft center" he claims to have. But Montgomery had some advantages: first, of being a superior actor, and second, of having, on the screen, a medium more effective for emphasizing the mysterious hat-box, in which the murderer's guilt is contained. Dame May Whitty, a rather old party whose very name takes the place of a huge neon sign, plays the dowager who bestows her repressed maternal affection on the strangler, and is repaid in trade...
Loss of the ether left the physicists inconsolable. Without it, light waves had no medium to carry them. The vital "frame of reference" was gone. No motion was "absolute" now. The motion of every moving body could be measured only "relative" to some other moving body...
Photons and Quanta. In that same year, 1905, Einstein advanced another theory which many historians of science consider even more important than Relativity. The ether was gone, and although Relativity established the velocity of light as the firmest figure in the universe, it did not supply any medium to carry the waves of light...
...physicists agreed that light consisted of waves whose properties had been observed in great detail. The old theory (favored by Newton) that light was speeding corpuscles had been abandoned. But the theory had one great advantage: corpuscles can move through space by themselves. Unlike waves, they need no medium to carry them...