The Archive · 1920

Libels on Einstein

To the Editor of the "Nonrra-Ceixa Dairy News."

Sim—My attention has been called to a serious mis-statement which occurs in the "Church! Notes" of last Saturday's issue. It is there suggested that the theory of gravitation has been discredited some extent by Einstein': hypothesis and therefore, ete.

How such a ridiculous suggestion can be made in an intelligent di cussion is extraordinary. Einstein hypothesis explains the last few remaining deviations of the gravitation theory from absolute a cordance with observation and in any case these deviations are so small that their cumulative effect! wontd not become apparent for} centuries.

Any styreestion that the theory! of gravitation is not true within a} field so wide as to include almost: the whole of—the wmiverse as far s it directly affects the earth, shows a colossal ignorance of Tam, ete..

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