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CHAT BEHIND IRON DOOR IN EINSTEIN'S ATTIC.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1929.
"My Greatest Ambition,”
The iron door clanga as the vialter enters... The room hermetically sealed from the out- side world. Not a whisper don bo heard of the traffic in the street below. Only the skylight, giveş ventilation and outlet to the limitless sky, whose mysteries Einstein has spent his Hio to golvd.
ONE LAW OF NATURE"For yeara," said Elastain, "It
Berlin, Jan. 25 The hitherto unproved theory that the forces of electro-mag- notiam are related to those of gravitation that the force which pulls a needle to a magnet. Is „governed by the same rules as the force which makes a magnot fall to the ground if it is dropped
has been my, greatest ambition to resolve the duality of natural laws into unity. This duality Hea the fact that physicists have hitherto been compelled to, postu, late two sets of laws those which control gravitation and those which control tha phenomena of electricity and of magnetism
"Gravitation and its laws/glya us the basis upon which we hav built our whole system of meet
has finally been proved fully andhanics and of movement. Elec with mathematical
precisenesstro-magnetism and its laws give
by Professor Albert Einstein.
This is the content of his now famous dissertation upon "A new feld theory, and this is the centro about which will revolve
un the basis upon which we have electrical phenomena and of heat built our doctrino · of -- light, of The general theory of relativity did not attempt or, at any rate, the experiments of physicists, the Many, physicists have suspect did not aufciently span this gap, discussions of mathematicians, and.
¡ in the next decade.
the speculations of philosophers based upon one general law, but ed that two sets of laws must be
neither experiment nor theory Einstein's paper, which he pre-has, until now, succeeded in pared for the Prussian Academy formulating this law.
of Sciences, and which is now in
the hands of the printera, has not
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Speculative Physics,
" belleve now that I have found
vet appeared. Ic, the officials of the Academy, his printer and his publishing agents have been Le- a proper form," Professor Einstein "I have thought out 'n slcged by hundreds of persons went on.
which is curious to get an inkling of the special construction contents of the new work, which differentiated, from that of my his colleagues had prophesied relativity theory, and from other of four dimensional would prove as important to the theories world of thought as was his path-space, through certain conditions. finding theory of relativity.
"These conditions bring under the same mathematical equations the Inwa which govern the electro- magnetic field and those which govern the fleld of gravitation." (Continued on Page 11.)
Three Pages,
Nane has been admitted to a glimpse of the three scant printi ed pages which contain the re- sults of more than ten years' labour. But through the kind-
acus of a friend of Professor Clears Skin
Einstein, I have been permitted to Kain a reproduction in Einstein's own words and a synopozis of his dissertation.
The paper itself consists almost entirely of mathematical formula.
Without an explanation. from: Einstein it would have taken weeks if not months of careful study by expert mathematicians to deduce from it the, principles: which proceed from the involved and difficult mathematical argu- ment.
As set forth by Einstein, how- ever, it becomes clear that the laboratories of physicists through. out the world will now see their main task lies in the attempt to prove or disprove the conclusions. he has so brilliantly set forth in mathematical equations.
Einstein Bad more reason than! his natural shyness and modesty) to shut himself away from the) horde of visitors. He has been ill for several years, and the work which he has now completed was achieved at the cast of люге energy than he could well afford.
His Aat in Haberland-street is ideally arranged for the quiet labours of the philosopher and acientist. On the fourth floor are rooms where he lives, sleep and cats. In them his wife presides. Her fe is devoted to, shielding "Allert."
During the last two weeks she. has stood for hours at the tele. phone, explaining that Professor Einstein could not speak to any- one, and trying to make it plain. that it wasn't because he WOR proud or grumpy or unsociable, but because if he once took up the receiver he would spend his whole! time answering questions which he prefers to let his dissertation
answer.
Above their dwelling, on the Afth floor, just beneath the roof, is one high-ceilinged attle room. It has an iron door. It.is Eins- tein's retreat, his workshop of thought in which havo been evolved more theories, hypotheses and laws of physiscs than have proceeded from the workshop of any thinker in this generation, and probably more than have come from anyone since Newton's time.
Indicative of the many-sided facets of Einstein's intellect is the fact that in this room, devoted for the most part to ratiocinations which
express
themselves in equations, formula and all those queer signs which characteriso the mathematicians' art, stands, opposite his desk, a grand piano.
A famous writer once said that, the true sign of great intellect was the combination of mathema- tieal and musical talent. This combination Einstein has. He is a passionate lover of music.
In another corner is a long brass telescopo, a sign of the fact that behind all of Einstein's work remain those chocks upon his accuracy-the stars.
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On a chair near his worktable loans an unframed sketch of Elbs- tein, dono by some unnamed artist, showing the philosopher and sclentist in contemplation with eyes closed.
His desk is piled high with papers and books. Next to him Is an armchair'in which his visitor is invited to make himself at home.
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