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WHY WE ARE ALL INTERESTED IN EINSTEIN.

SOLVING THE RIDDLES OF THE UNIVERSE?

The famous don whose toast was which has removed all now develop Pyro science and may it never boments once and fortull out of the any damned use to anyone!!! seems full comprehension of the layman. to have a good many disciples now. Yet Einstein is a familiar figure a-days, writes Mr. Edward Shanks to more members of the lay public in the Evening Standard. Sir than any other scientist who ever James Jeans's The Universe lived. This is the man who has Around Us" has sold more than given us a universe to be described 40,000 copies in English and is being only by equations, and those of translated into seven other Inn-no elementary kind. They involve ginges. What "dannod use" can it not only length, breadth and depth, be to anyone to know how the solar but also the fourth dimension of system came into existence of what time; and tine enters into them in its and will be? We cannot alter terms of what Sir James Jeans its past and it is in the highest calls, with great moderation, "a degree improbable that we can do mysterious unit," which is one anything effective about its future.second multiplied by the square root Still less can it be of any damued of minus one..

#! Heo" to us to know that Sirius has 26.3 times the candle-power of the sun or that the carbon atom, with out which, apparently, our budica could not have existed, consists of six electrons revolving round "a central nucleus.

Yet these are the things which Sir Janica Joans tells us, and it is likely that his new book, "The Mysterious Universe (Cambridge University Press, 38. ed. net), will be at least as popular as its pro

decessor.

"Einstein Unimination.

The number of people whose mathematical know tedge extende to any adequate notion of what is meant by the tremely small, and no others may square root of minus one is cX- ever hope to have a full knowledge of what Einstein and his colleagues are talking about.

Baffled for Ever:

But, howover we came here, we do want to understand our position and Sir James Jeans is one of the people who are trying to help us to do so. What he tells us is, existence of an ultimuta mystery in essence, that we can detect the

but that we are unlikely ever to be able to solve it. Until recently it was thought that the physical world functioned like a machine and that we had only to know enough about its working parts to know all about the whole. It was oven thought that eventually we should be able to describe in mechanical terms the process of life itself.

Now it seems that even in inor. will for ever defeat us. Take a ganic matter there is a process that

simple illustration that Sir James emits energy by the distintegration given us. We know that radium of cortain of its atoms at regular intervals of time. But all the atons in a given lump of radium in the same condition at a given aro presumably of the same age and

moment. Yet one of them is taken, Wodo

w what sie the others are left there seem dity

We enn deduce from James Jeans tells us that there may be a million worlds like our in our own system and the hundred-inch telescope abows us two million comparablo systems outside. Thus the human race, or something like it, may be spread very widely, if very thinly, through the entire scheme of things. On the other hand, it may be argued, no less plausibly, that a particular series of accidents led to its appearance here, that it apears nowhere elte, and that it is no more than a pass

And there is another proof of this general interest in useless things Professor Einstein is the culmination (or the present cul- mination) of a movement in scienceing accident.

likelihood that we eball over know,

Sir James Jeans does give us one ray of hope. He tells us that all our knowledge, limited though it may he is consistent with the universe being a thought in the mind of a pure mathematician; and that, since we have, however imperfectly, de.. veloped the science of pure mathe: matics, means that we are not out of touch with that Mind even that wo

This is a point at which what is were, perhaps, intended by It, further implied may be left to the imagination of the reader.

Diary of Coming Events.

To-day. (December 27.)

Queen's Theatre: "Dough Boya" World Theatre! "Flying Fleet." Stor Theatre: "Chasing. Through Europe."

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