SPACE NOT CURVED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21649, 20 May 1932, Page 10

SPACE NOT CURVED

THEORIES OF SCIENTISTS. Professor Einstein, and Professor de Sitter have come to an agreement on whether the limits of space are curved or otherwise. It seems now that it is not. Professor Einstein, -it appears, did move than take courses, as reported, while he was visiting in California. Part of the 'time, at least, was spent thrashing out relativity and unified field theories with Professor de Sitter, who was also at Mount Wilson. And now it becomes evident that the distinguished Dutch astronomer was more nearly right than Einstein. • Space, they say in their joint report, is not curved at its '■’liter limits. Two things come out of the latest report that will please the laymen. First, Euclidean geometery. studied by many at school, comes forth triumphant; light travels on and on in ’straight lines forever and a day. Secondly, light will not go to the outer extremities of the universe and then curve around and come back to its starting place. The historical properties of that condition have always worried many. Think what our descendants on the earth could find out about us and our ways of living. Fortunately that condition cannot and never did exist, if the latest theories hold true.