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Discusses the theory of relativity of the physicist Albert Einstein. Use of Isaac Newton's law of gravitation as the model of a law of nature; Involvement of modification of the Newtonian theory of gravitation in the acceptance of the theory of relativity; Convenience of the Euclidean geometry for ordinary lengths and areas; Improvement of Einstein's original paper on the methods of the physicist Hendrik Antoon Lorentz in the theory of electricity.

The article discusses the paper written by scientist and mathematician Albert Einstein regarding the special theory of relativity. Einstein's remarkable paper begins with two axioms. One is the axiom that two observers, each of whom appears to the other to be moving with a constant speed in a straight line, cannot tell which of them is moving. The second axiom is that when both observers measure the speed of light, they will get the same answer.

Highlights the holiday meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Washington. Total number of papers read at the meeting; Exhibition of new facts at the event; Aspects of the process of understanding; Views of professor W. F. G. Swann about the revolutionary aspects of Albert Einstein's gravitational theory; Opinion of President Calvin Coolidge about the gathering; Primary value of a research.

A photograph of Albert Einstein checking the candle utilized by Michael Faraday for electrical experiments is presented.

The article profiles physicist Albert Einstein who began receiving recognition in the world of physics when he published his paper on the special theory of relativity after 1905. His published works include "On the Influence of the Propagation of Light," "Space, Time and Gravitation," and "Cosmological Considerations on the General Theory of Relativity." His stand on many political and moral questions changed during the 1930s.

The article reflects on the new theory of German physicist Albert Einstein, which was considered to have resulted in an extraordinary journalistic disturbance. The author stresses that when his new publication was announced, journalists have wasted columns of space on it in an amazing fashion. Furthermore, the reporting of the Einstein theory was considered as a mere journalistic bounce. However, by American standards, the author suggests that the publication was good business.

Comments on the meeting of the scholars in the U.S. Gathering of the social science groups in Chicago; Publication of the minutes of the events by the societies; Importance of knowing how the truth transpires; Announcement at the meeting of the British Royal Astronomical Society about the prediction of the German mathematician, Albert Einstein; Experimental checks on the Einstein theory; Human aspects of the learned society.

The article discusses the U.S. presidential bets by various notable people in 1952. Psychology professor Jesse W. Sprowls claims Democrat Adlai Stevenson will become president, while Irys Vorel, technical editor of the "Forecast" magazine believes Republican bet Dwight Eisenhower will win. William Tuck, former governor of Virginia, endorses Eisenhower. Physicist Albert Einstein claims he will vote for Stevenson. Columnist Dorothy Thompson says she will vote for Eisenhower.

The article discusses prospects of fusion power in physics that explores new view towards man's mystery of the universe. It offers information on the theory of the International Geophysical Year which believed that the earth is not round but pear shaped because the South pole is much wider than the North. Further it mentions about the phenomenon of photosynthesis process. However the problem with gravitation is also discussed with physicist Albert Einstein's relativity theory.

News briefs related to politics and government are presented. Scientist Albert Einstein warned that the U.S. military is becoming increasingly controlling through influence in the government, education, science, and industry. The author reports a possible plan to use exiled King Michael of Rumania to gain influence for the U.S. and Great Britain in the Balkans. Information on the sale of war supplies to China's Chiang Kai-shek by Canada is presented.

Presents an account of U.S. physicist Albert Einstein's tour to New York. Spread of the news that Einstein is trying hard to keep away from the newspapermen and the ship-news crew; Urge made by different newspapers to Einstein to arrange his "nation-wide radio broadcast"; Explanation of Einstein's characteristics and the belief of the ship crew to consider him a short cut to God.

The article presents the author's comments on the book "The Universe and Dr. Einstein," by Lincoln Barnett. The author covers the entire story of the post-Newtonian revolution, from philosophers John Locke and George Berkeley through scientist Albert Einstein's special and general theories of relativity. No other popular exposition is so short a space succeeds in choosing between the presentation of mathematical or other technicalities, which the layman cannot really follow and the resting content with metaphorical simplifications which will give him a false sense of understanding what he does not really understand. The present book requires close attention and hard thinking, but it does not require any special knowledge which a reasonably well-informed layman does not have.

The life of scientist Albert Einstein, who was born on March 14, 1879, marked a heroic age in two senses. In his lifetime, in great part by his works, were formed the new concepts of large- and small-scale physics which have profoundly affected man's thinking. And also in his lifetime the unwritten tradition of free and open speculation on which for him all science rested was often challenged and with his aid defended. The great revolutionary minds in science have been thinkers rather than inventors, rather than experimenters. And it was not the complexity but the simplicity of their thought which made it a challenge to everything that the rest of the world had taken for granted, which enabled it three times to conquer the thinking world.

Sixteen years ago several scientists, including the late Enrico Fermi, approached Albert Einstein and told him that certain experiments with nuclear fission had approached such a point that they felt the highest authority, should know about it. Sixteen years after this event the U.S. had spent more than ten billion dollars on its atomic energy program, huge stockpiles of bomb had been accumulated, and atomic energy programs had developed in a score of countries around the world. Large public utilities in the U.S. and abroad were designing reactors to produce electricity from the heat caused by the fission of uranium atoms.

The resurrection of buried literary works is not without its dangers. Anything writer George Orwell wrote is worth reprinting, and all can give two cheers for the American edition of the book "Homage to Catalonia," which was first published in England in 1938. The danger in this cage is that Orwell was writing in a white heat about a confused, unimportant, and obscure incident in the Spanish Civil War. There are fewer people in the United States today who know about it than can work out scientist Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Proof of this can be found in writer Lionel Trilling's introduction to the book. Orwell has become a minor classic, and his experience in Catalonia, Spain, was a turning point in his life.

Scientist Albert Einstein's arrival in Hollywood, was the signal for a gay round of dinners and cocktail parties. Basil Rathbone, who had given a party in psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud's honor to which everyone came as his favorite neurosis, gave one for Einstein in which the guests were got up as their favorite numbers. Needless to say, there were some pretty hot numbers. The climax, however, was a dinner at the Trocadero, given by the film colony as a whole, at which Will H. Hays was the principal speaker.

The article presents the author's comments on the theory of relativity given by scientist Albert Einstein. He says that Einstein wrapped up theory in mathematical technicalities such that it is almost impossible for non-mathematicians to make out its import from the accounts of specialists, while popular accounts usually suggest ideas that are not wholly correct. For this, the word relativity is partly to blame. People often imagine that the new theory proves everything to be relative, whereas, on the contrary, it is wholly concerned to exclude what is relative and arrive at a statement of physical laws that shall in no way depend upon the circumstances of the observer.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Appeal for relief for children in Vladivostok, Russia; Comment about Morris R. Cohen's review of several books on the theory of relativity by Albert Einstein; Reasons for the U.S. government to reject the Treaty of Versailles; Analogy between the life of a nation and a life of a man.

This article provides several scientific predictions for 2123 by J. B. S. Haldane, reader in biochemistry at Cambridge University in Massachusetts. Haldane forecasts the main effects of scientist Albert Einstein's relativity to be experienced in philosophy and ethics. He predicts the speed of transportation to increase and to be limited only by the velocity of light. He also expects agriculture to become luxury and mankind to be completely urbanized.

The article presents quotes from several notable people, including Professor Albert Einstein on his resignation from the League of Nations Committee for Intellectual Cooperation, The Earl of Northesk on being sick with appendicitis, and General Sir Alexander Godley on his travel to Cologne to London, England via Belgium.

The article focuses on scientist Albert Einstein and his Special Theory of Relativity. Experts state that, Einstein's theory is inspired by an experiment performed by the American scientists Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley in 1887 which showed that the speed of light is constant despite the motion of its source. According to historian Gerald Holton, Einstein had left behind letters which speaks of the influence of the experiment on the formulation of his theory.

Presents a letter to the editor about an editorial in the July 20, 1921, issue on the reaction of the American scientific community to physicist Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.