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«= Bir. Ladd... scesess NEW-¥@RK HERALD TRIBUNE WEEKLY- BOOK REVIEW. JANUARY 16, 1949 ea New Vision of Universeas Seen. by Einstein J : Mind of Man Taken on Cosmic Grand Tour Fol lowing Revolutionary Theories of Great Physicist ~ t ry THE UNIVERSE AND (o_form_a closed unity. (Never: may be tnat: “some billions of en : d i*- DR. EINSTEIN. Tnind if this doesn’t “make sense.” years fr the processes . _ By Lincoln arnetl. «ss the book.) ts size can be cal- be at the same temperature. . - . - Pb. + 4s New York: William culated trom good sstronomical ‘There will be no light, no life, no’ “ Sloane Associates. ..« $2.56. date. {ts yadius 15-210,000 ‘billion warmth--nething but perpetual 4 . pilifon iniles. “A sunbeam, setting , and irrevocable stagnation. Time § '. , . Reviewed by - - ‘out ‘through space at the rate, of? itself will come to an‘end.’ On the. . - GERALD WENDT ~196,000 miles a second, would de- other hand jt may be that “some-. ‘ “u ' ae 7. ee - ‘Editor of “Science Mustrated” wertbe wo wreal comme. iiele“ apd, how, somewhere beyond man’s. - | n, the universe may be: ‘ INSTEIN was right, = — akeaee its SOUrCE eet " That is the cosmic mes- more than __200_billion terrestrial rebuilding itself.” Matter may be. ars.” ; in process of formation from radi-. : ; of th tomic bomb. ; | All 4 ade berating consequences 7 ct there has hardly been tim ation, atoms may combine into are minor compared with its ex- — dust and dust into stars, . Both. My ©. plosive proof that the old, universe M . . of Galileo and Bir Isaac Newton ls - outmode , that the world of simple -L mechanics, of gravitational force emerged from the new for such a beam to traverse More j vest ¢ ‘ ; . osm pulses in a self- ra: , 1 per cent of this grand COs-/\ petuating, pulsating universe, No- body kmowa~-yet. «°° Te | Meanwhile Dr. Einstein himself, nas fon many years been working * on an extension of. his analyals which will include electromagnoti¢: § forces,, along with gravitation, matter and motion, under & alngle. . ~ vast concept that he calls “uni- - fied fleld theory.” It ls “intoler- able to the theoretical spirit,” said Einstein himself, that these two separate structures of space exist ~ independently of each other. But. little’ cam be said of it now. “The Universe and Dr. Einstein” nets a new standard in -science — writing and is, I think, the first so indicate that the original| American book that can be com- anium supply must have been} pared in maturity, clarity .and ; same a sen not hesitate to waite eee ea Wo distinguished ant Albers'Einstein e od influential wor sir ‘ 4 ” ‘creation’ with « capital C. jeans vad ir paren nad neton, A photograph by Lotte Jacobi from “The Universe and Dr. Kinstein ; With such a recent beginning, It deserves equal acecptance, if nalism, he was for six years a te- is his first book. All but: a few Be hat of the end? There is no an- only for ‘its literary quality, Yet porter on the city staff of the pages of it appeared last summer # : for nine as @ series of three articles ing desien cyclotrons and the atomic wer yet, It awaits the big tele- Mr. “Barnett is mo scientist. Herald Tribune, then : ' ; ope on Palomar Mountain. tr! graduate from Columbia i = years on the staf of “Life.” This “Harper's Magazine," r But “ such’ proofs are "ERSLESSGn, LB no ” AnAG wht _ aot es rc ’ “af immutable space and time, ls only a apecial case of a fer more dnamense reality, and that common sense “is nothing more than a de-- posit of prejudices laid down in the - mind prior to the age of eighteen.” < Mathematicians and physicists wereconvinced long 480. On May 29, 1919, an eclipse of the sun showed that light raya from distant stars an be bent by passing close to the * Jeun, and. thus proved that the ° "old idea of gravity was wrong and | -Binstein right. In 1936 Dr, H. E. Ives, of the Bell Telephone ‘Lab: ‘oratories, proved that high-speed _moving atoms do reduce the fre- quency of their characteristic radi- ations, Again Einstein was right: high-speed clocks do alow down and at the velocity of light time stands still. With these new con- ceptions the experts were able to about two billion} years ago. ond, the rate at hich most 4 are transmuting [matter into @ ergy implies t the avers age of present visible stars is als about two billion years. Third, th .. . ee el rrr terr