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MUFONET-BBS GROUP - MUTUAL UFO NETWORK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SCIENCE NEWS - WIRE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿ ³=START= XMT: 13:15 Tue Mar 24 EXP: 13:00 Tue Mar 31 ³ ³ ³ ³UNPUBLISHED LETTERS FROM ALBERT EINSTEIN DONATED TO PIERPONT³ ³MORGAN LIBRARY ³ ³ ³ ³NEW YORK (MARCH 24) XINHUA - A COLLECTION OF 25 PREVIOUSLY ³ ³UNPUBLISHED LETTERS AND POSTCARDS FROM ALBERT EINSTEIN TO A ³ ³GERMAN ASTRONOMER HAVE RECENTLY BEEN DONATED TO THE PIERPONT³ ³MORGAN LIBRARY IN NEW YORK. ³ ³ ³ ³THE LETTERS RECORD THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRUCIAL ASPECTS OF ³ ³EINSTEIN'S GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY, INCLUDING ALL THREE³ ³PREDICTIONS THAT WERE EVENTUALLY VERIFIED BY EXPERIMENTS OR ³ ³OBSERVATIONS, THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTED TODAY. ³ ³ ³ ³ERWIN FINDLAY FREUNDLICH, A GERMAN ASTRONOMER, WAS PERHAPS ³ ³THE FIRST SCIENTIST TO BECOME THOROUGHLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE³ ³FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF EINSTEIN'S THEORY, AND THE FIRST ³ ³PERSON TO TRY TO PROVIDE EXPERIMENTAL PROOF OF THE PREDICTED³ ³CONSEQUENCES OF THE GENERAL THEORY. ³ ³ ³ ³THE CORRESPONDENCE, MADE BETWEEN 1911 AND 1931, WAS DONATED ³ ³TO THE MORGAN LIBRARY BY ECONOMIST HORACE WOOD BROCK, WHO ³ ³AQUIRED THE LETTERS FROM DR. FREUNDLICH'S WIDOW. THE ³ ³CORRESPONDENCE HAD BEEN GENERALLY INACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC³ ³OR MOST SCHOLARS. ³ ³ ³ ³THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY EXPLAINS THE FORCE OF ³ ³GRAVITY IN TERMS OF THE CURVATURE THAT SPACE UNDERGOES IN ³ ³THE VICINITY OF MASSIVE OBJECTS. EINSTEIN PREDICTED THAT ³ ³LIGHT PASSING THROUGH SUCH A CURVED SPACE WOULD ITSELF ³ ³FOLLOW A CURVING PATH. ANOTHER PREDICTION BASED ON ³ ³EINSTEIN'S THEORY WAS THAT LIGHT PASSING A MASSIVE OBJECT ³ ³WOULD UNDERGO A REDDENING, AND THE THEORY ALSO PREDICTED ³ ³THAT A CLOCK NEAR A VERY MASSIVE OBJECT WOULD RUN SLOWER ³ ³THAN ONE DISTANT FROM SUCH AN OBJECT. ALL THESE PREDICTIONS ³ ³HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED. ³ ³ ³ ³DR. MARTIN J. KLEIN, A PROFESSOR OF SCIENCE HISTORY AT YALE ³ ³UNIVERSITY WHO IS A SENIOR EDITOR IN CHARGE OF PUBLISHING ³ ³THE COMPLETE EINSTEIN PAPERS, SAID THE NEW COLLECTION AT THE³ ³MORGAN LIBRARY WAS QUITE IMPORTANT IN UNDERSTANDING THE ³ ³DEVELOPMENT OF EINSTEIN'S IDEAS. ³ ³ ³ ³SCHOLARS SAY THERE ARE AS MANY AS 50,000 DOCUMENTS IN THE ³ ³EINSTEIN ARCHIVE. PUBLICATION OF THE PAPERS COULD RUN TO AS³ ³MANY AS 30 VOLUMES. ³ ³ ³ ³=END= ³

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