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EINSTEIN SIMPLIFIED.
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BOTTLED IN COGNAC A simple experiment to
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Einstein's theory of the bent ray was used by Professor H. H Turner in a lecture to children. Describing the experiment the | Daily News says:----
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The Borlia correspondent of The Obferver recently wrote the following! interesting review of the attitude of the public in Germany towards the monsure, by the French in the Rubr
In the darkened ball a brilliant ray was directed into one end of a tank of
The Ruhr question has now reached a water. At a apot exactly opposite, as the other end of the tank, was a plugged hale. pont, in the German opinion, where both parties have played theil trump cards, The plug being taken out, the water and the game is at a complete standstil poured forth in a jet But the light MARTELL & CO. which escaped at the same time, instead ideelopments occur. The re- af shining in a direct beam through the markable thing is that here reasons why hole, was bent downwards by the jet France must lose are the only ones allow- imprisoned in it," as the professored to be mentioned openly. France's described it, and thus it illuminated the credit is more interest than Germany's bottom of a bath some distance beneath, currency, and speculation has taken on a new aspect on the Berlin Bourse, where into which the jet of water foll...
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lecturer interrupted the falling jet of water, a dazzling star of light would thing Ist the point of interruption.
This experiment was in itself a subtle way of instilling in the children's mind the great modern idea associated with the name of Einstein regarding the deffee tion of light,
Everyone knows how hard a task it is for the professors to bring even a glimmering of the Einstein theory into the minds of average grown-ups. It might have been thought that even the stontest professorial beart would have quailed it the thought of murmuring the ramo of Einstein to an audience mainly composed of young:
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But Professor Turner cheerfully essayed the task, and as Einstein for babes is matter of general interest, the following was his manner of explaining it :-
"It was not until Einstein came that Newton's Law of Gravitation was quee tioned, but we now see very considerable reasons for questioning it.
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The truth of the present entirely un- satisfactory situation today in Berlin is that Germany is once more under a complete regime of Nationalist opinion. Fooling against France is acutely bitter, though the noisy songs of the cabarets and the theatrical demonstrations of
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HONGKONG BRANCH: Interest allowed on Cairent Accounts and to be waiting for higher prices and the greater misery of the greater number be- fore making advances, which would mean both resignation on his part and a dan- gerous state of things for the country. But the Foreign Minister, Baron von Rosenberg, and the wellare Minister, Herr Becker, are earnest in their resistance, and Herr Becker carries the whole weight of the industrialists of the Ruhr with him, and bas, consequently, more influence in the Government than Cuno, Hermes, and Ebert put together.
The proof this week that Germany's the West is passive policy towards balanced by an active policy towards the East is Baron von Rosenberg's ratifica tion of the Rapallo. Treaty, fact which came as something of a bombshell to the country in general. The name of Baron Maltzahn, who is intimately connected with this Treaty, crops up more and more frequently of late as Secretary of State. His Russian sympathies are bear- ing fruit in the direction most desired by the Soviet Embassy..
Labour is convinced to a man that the Ruhr tactics must end in catastrophe for Germany, meaning nothing less than dis integration when the real truth of what a coal shortage means dawns on the populace at last. It seems quite probable "Yet think of the time the light of the at present that the Press obliged to stars taken to travel! In the case of our follow the polley pursued during the own sun it takes light eight minutes to war and to neclaim that victory is com. roach us and four hours to reach Nep-plete over the enemy until the actual day The struggle of defeat and revolution. **Even it a concert-ball were large between patriotism and common BCDEC 1, mough to accommodate the solar system, terrible. Whether Labour sees too blackly and the sun represented the concert plat-only the future. can tell. By resistance form, the people in the front row would all Germans certainly deel that they have have gone home and retired to bed before the people at the back would have heard the beginning of concert.
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