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NEW-¥ORK HERALD TRIBUNE WEEKLY-BOOK REVIEW, JANUARY 16, 1949 * tos New Vision of Universeas Seen by Einstein 7 Mind of Man Taken on Cosmic Grand Tour Fol lowing Revolutionary Theories of Great Physicist ~ THE UNIVERSE AND to form a closed unity. (Never may be tnat: “gome billions of DR. EINSTEIN. qnind if this doesn’t “make se! years frog, DOWeAll the processes | By Lincoln Barnett. tat Remember, Einstein Is right. Rea of nature Will cease, All space will” y Lincoin Barnett. « . » : the book.) Its size can be cal- be at the same temperature. | - op... New York: William cuiated trom good tronomileal There will be no light, no life, Do” Sloane Associates... . $2.50. data. “Yis-Fadlus ts-210,000 billion warmth--nothing but perpetual : billion mfles. “A” sunbeam, setting ; and irrevocable stagnation. Time Reviewed by ‘out through space at the rate. of’ itself will come to an end.” On the GERALD WENDT _ "186,000" miles a second, would de- other hand it may be that “some-; i, ) Saitor of “Science IUustrated” ' yertbe—wurent. “Eosmilc tircle“and. how, somewhere beyond man’s return to its source INSTEIN was right. aiter @ little meager ken, the universe may be ‘That is the cosmic mes- 2 than 300 billion terrestris! rebuilding itself.” Matter may be” sage of the atomic bomb. in process of formation from radi- All its reverberating consequences 7 ation, atoms may combine into are minor compared with Its ex- j dust and dust into stars. Both _, plosive proof that the old. universe processes may be going on at once, of Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton is lor they may follow each other in f outmoded, that the world of simple vast” cosmic pulses in a sel{-per-: mechanics, of gravitational force petuating, pulsating universe, No-, ‘and superficial chemical reactions, body knowa—yel. - = °° : of immutable space and time, ls Meanghile Dr. Einstein himself, only a special case of @ far more has fon many years been working * immense reality, and that common on an extension of. his analyals | sense “is nothing more than a de- which will include electromagnetic. f posit of prejudices lald down in the forces,, along with gravitation, if mind prior to the age of eighteen.” matter and motion, under « single Mathematicians and physicists «vast concept that he calls “unk were convinced longago. On May29, fled fleld theory.” It ts “Intoler- 1919, an eclipse of the sun showed able to the theoretical spirit,” said that light rays from distant stars Einstein himself, that these two an be bent by passing close to the separate structures of space exist > * foun, and. thus proved that the independently of each other, But, + fold idea of gravity was wrong and little can be sald of it now. ; Einstein right. In 1936 Dr. H. “phe Universe and Dr, Einstein” | Ives, of the Bell Telephone Lab- nets a new standard in -sclence oratories, proved that high-speed writing and is, I think, the first moving atoms do reduce the tre- ‘American book that can be com- quency of their characteristic radi- pared. in maturity, clarity . and ations, Again Einstein was right: Prace with the distinguished and Me ces high-speed clocks do slow down influential works of Sir James inser and Dr. Einstein” and at the velocity of light time Jeans and Sit Arthur Eddington. ‘A photograph by Lotte Jacobi from “The Universe Dr. ; stands still. With these nes Hot” Jeansserves equal aceoptance, if nalism, Re was for sbs Yeon’ ree is his first book. All buts few \ ceptions the exper were ale ie only, for ‘ts terary quality. Yet porter on the city staff of the. pages of it appeared last summer {design cyclo ons and the atomic Mr. Barnett is no scientist Mreraid ‘Tribyne, then for nine as a series of three articles im - ~~, graduate from Columbia $n years on the staff of “Life.” This “Harper’s Magazine,” : But “such” proofs are “EBBLEA Ce, emerged from the new-born sun for such a beam to traverse more than 1 per cent of this grand cos- mic tour. The universe cap hard-; ly be more than’ two billion years old, The evidence for this is three-| fold. Pirst, the galaxies are all, without exception, racing Aw®: from each other, the remotest wit a speed of 25,000 miles a second they act as if they had all startes from » single compact cente| about two billion] years #0. ond, the rate at Fhich most 8! are transmuting |matter into el ergy implies t the avers age of present visible stars is als about two billion years. ‘Third, th rate at which uranium natural): changes to lead, and the amount {lead and uranium in the earth, so indicate that the original ‘anium supply must have been vreated two billion years agO. Mr. arnett does not hesitate to write ‘creation’ with a capital Cc. With such a recent beginning, wnat of the end? There is no an-; wer yet. It awaits the big tele- ope on Palomar Mountain. It! ’ anda bbs . ae ~— Iles