An attack upon the theories of Einstein and Sir Arthur Eddington was made on April 4 by Mr. Albert Eagle, lecturer in mathematics at Manchester University, at the Victoria Institute, Central Hall, London. He described the conception of curved space as "this brain-addling theory," and said: "In my opinion the curved space stunt has been the most deplorable episode of absurdity in the history of science or of human thought," states the "Manchester Guardian."
Mr. Eagle quoted an extract from Sir Arthur Eddingtons book "The Expanding Universe," and commented, "Was ever such sheer nonsense soberly introduced into sane science before the days of Einstein and Eddington? Yet Sir Arthur has not the common sense to see that he is trying to make his mind believe in the impossible because it involves a contradiction. How in the world can anyone so allow their infatuation for a bit of mathematics to delude their brains?"
From another book Mr. Eagle quoted an extract which he described as "priceless nonsense." "It is so much 9," he added, "that I think it will be 4 kindness if I do not divulge the authór's name; but it is by one of the leading writers on relativity."
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