NEW THEORY
More Important than “Relativity” GREAT EINSTEIN (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. 10 a.m. BERLIN, Sunday. Professor Albert Einstein has handed to the Prussian Academy of Science a manuscript whose contents, it is stated, are more important than his first paper on relativity. The theme of the new work tion of the laws of mechanics with the laws of electro-dynamics. Professor Einstein has spent a decade in arriving at his conclusions, which he presents upon only five typewritten pages. The Academy will shortly publish it.
It was in 1905 that Professor Einstein, great German physicist, formulated his own theory of relativity in its narrower hr “special” form, and this formulation at once raised him to a high place among scientists. In 3 915 he caused a veritable sensation in the scientific world by his explanation of gravitational attraction, based on the wider or “general” form of his theory of relativity, and accompanied by an explanation of the anomalous motion of the planet Mercury. He then made a remarkable prediction about the bending of light rays from the stars which passed close to the sun. The verifying of this prediction by the British solar-eclipse expedition in 1919 made Einstein world-famous. Some scientists place him on Newton's level.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 561, 14 January 1929, Page 9
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207NEW THEORY Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 561, 14 January 1929, Page 9
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