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...native New York, he read unceasingly in physics. "I began to read systematically through the branch libraries uptown, gradually working my way downtown to the Public Library on 42nd Street." By the time Schwinger had graduated from high school, he had read thoroughly in atomic physics and quantum mechanics. His training in mathematics had been to read all that the Encyclopedia Britannica offered on that subject, which, as he said, "pretty well covered the field up to that time...
Hardly anyone accepted Einstein's challenge. More popular with physicists was a view derived from quantum mechanics, which holds that the universe is made up of small particles (quanta) that behave, individually, as if they were governed by mere chance. Einstein does not accept this. "I cannot believe," he remarked, "that God plays dice with the cosmos...
...laymen just what he has done. Apparently he has worked out a solution for Einstein's equations, and has concluded that electromagnetism gives rise to both matter and to gravity, a property of matter. This would make the laws of electro-magnetism supreme, superseding the "dice" of quantum mechanics...
...architecture at M.I.T., as almost everywhere, with success. Since most teachers in America operate on narrow gauge and have strictly limited switching faculties in the world of cognition, Bucky is an inspiring Messiah to the type of youth that wants to be told the relationship between a triangle and quantum mechanics, and cannot find anyone else willing or able to make the connection...
Termed "one of England's two most brilliant theoretical chemists," Moffit's specialty is quantum mechanics. He will teach this subject here during the spring...