The Day We Found the Universe - Marcia Bartusiak [156]
138 “Spacetime tells mass how to move”: Ciufolini and Wheeler (1995), p. 13.
138 “When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a curved branch”: Isaacson (2007), p. 196.
139 “Whether the theory ultimately proves to be correct or not”: Douglas (1957), p. 39.
140 “Newton's plant, which had outgrown its pot, and transplanted it to a more open field”: Ibid., p. 18.
140 “people seem to forget that I am an astronomer”: Ibid., p. 115.
140 “he couldn't talk at all”: AIP, interview of Hermann Bondi by David DeVorkin on March 20, 1978.
140 declared valuable to the “national interest”: Douglas (1957), p. 92.
141 Einstein was the first to do this: Einstein was actually prompted to do this after a discussion of general relativity with de Sitter in the fall of 1916. Kragh (2007), p. 131.
141 “Cosmological Considerations Arising from the General Theory of Relativity”: Einstein (1917).
141 “I compare space to a cloth”: Kahn and Kahn (1975), p. 452.
141 “It exposes me to the danger of being confined to a madhouse”: Isaacson (2007), p. 252.
142 “as required by the fact of the small velocities of the stars”: Translated in Lorentz, Einstein, Minkowski, and Weyl (1923), p. 188.
142 discussions in fact that inspired Einstein to conceive his spherical universe: Kerszberg (1989), pp. 99, 172.
143 “the frequency of light-vibrations diminishes”: De Sitter (1917), p. 26.
143 “amongst the most distant objects we know”: Ibid., p. 27.
143 “Einstein's universe contains matter but no motion”: Eddington (1933), p. 46.
143 “does not make sense to me”: Kahn and Kahn (1975), p. 453.
144 “systematically”: De Sitter (1917), p. 28.
145 “it will always remain beyond my grasp”: Smith (1982), p. 173.
145 he had early on suggested a specific test: Einstein (1911).
146 “This should serve for an ample verification”: Dyson (1917), p. 447.
146 “What will it mean … if we get double the Einstein deflection?”: Douglas (1957), p. 40.
146 “We are conscious only of the weird half-light of the landscape”: Eddington (1920), p. 115.
147 “Cottingham, you won't have to go home alone”: Douglas (1957), p. 40.
147 “One thing is certain, and the rest debate”: Ibid., p. 44.
147 These were the results that Eddington and Dyson stressed in their reports: See Dyson, Eddington, and Davidson (1920).
147 “LIGHTS ALL ASKEW IN THE HEAVENS”: New York Times, November 10, 1919, p. 17.
147 Eddington admitted he was unscientifically rooting for Einstein: Eddington (1920), p. 116.
148 “I hoped it would not be true”: Douglas (1957), p. 44.
148 “We met in quick succession Their Eminences”: LOA, Curtis Papers, Curtis to Campbell, May 11, 1921.
148 “He surely looks like the fourth dimension!” Ibid.
148 “bombshell … which quite blew up the meeting of the Academy”: HUA, Shapley to Russell, May 4, 1925.
148 “I am really getting pretty tired of the fundamentalist's attitude of the opponents of relativity”: HUA, Russell to Shapley, May 21, 1925.
10. Go at Each Other “Hammer and Tongs”
149 The year 1920 was one of achievements: My thanks to Virginia Trimble for pointing out some of these interesting facts in a review of the debate written for its seventy-fifth anniversary in 1995. See Trimble (1995) and also Streissguth (2001), p. 42.
150 “homeric fight”: De Sitter (1932), p. 86.
150 “done to death”: NAS, Abbot to Hale, January 3, 1920.
150 “I pray to God that the progress of science will send relativity to some region of space beyond the fourth dimension”: HP, Abbot to Hale, January 20, 1920.
150 Abbot wondered … island-universe theory: Hoskin (1976a), p. 169; Smith (1983), p. 28; NAS, Abbot to Hale, January 3, 1920.
150 “daring innovator …”; “… and more often concluded ‘not proven’ than ‘not so’”: Struve (1960), p. 398.
151 “Perhaps Harvard is amateurish, compared with Mount Wilson”: HUA, Shapley to Russell, February 12, 1919.
151 worried how he would come across: Shapley was increasingly uncomfortable at Mount Wilson, where he didn't get along with deputy director Walter Adams. Adams strongly criticized Shapley's model of the galaxy