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...Wilson Observatory, has been telling Dr. Albert Einstein what he has seen through his big telescope. He has carefully described the red shift in starlight which he is studying with his fellow astronomer, Dr. Milton La Salle Humason. At the same time, a neighbor, Dr. Richard Chace Tolman, physicist of California Institute of Technology, has been explaining his interpretation of Dr. Hubble's starlight news to Dr. Einstein. It appears to him that the Universe is not static as Dr. Einstein has asserted, but constantly enlarging in size, changing in shape. The nebulae seem to be shooting away from...
...what the meat was. They thought it most probable that he had adopted the idea of an expanding Universe. Other famed scientists who also have adopted it: Harlow Shapley of Harvard Astronomical Observatory; Walter Nernst of the University of Berlin. Most vehement exponent is Sir James Hopwood Jeans, British physicist...
...Browne then questioned German scientists. The majority answered that, with all humbuggery discounted, a large number of successes remained which could not be accounted for by luck or chance. Some favored the explanation of the late Sir William F. Barrett, British physicist, that dowsers have a subconscious power something like the unexplained homing instinct of birds. Others were inclined to believe the theory of Professor John Walter Gregory of University of Glasgow that dowsers learn to recognize certain topographical formations which accompany underground water. A famed British dowser, who had the ability as a child, is the Hon. David Bowes...
...Einstein has really been going to school in Pasadena. He has attended lectures about the galaxies by Dr. Gustaf Benjamin Stromberg of Mt. Wilson Observatory. Richard Chace Tolman, physicist-mathematician of Caltech, has been giving him lessons in astrophysics. Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble of Mt. Wilson Observatory has promised to let him look through the Mt. Wilson telescope. One evening all the California scientists had a banquet, invited Dr. Einstein as guest of honor. He spoke to them in German, complimented the works of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson who is remeasuring light, Mt. Wilson's Dr. Hubble who measured...
...retired, of San Francisco, onetime senior officer of the Mathematics Corps: "[Dr. Albert] Einstein is neither astronomer, mathematician, nor physicist...