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southern African trade unions and liberation movements will speaking at factory phe or We Tud by Polish the North Lancashire Trades Councils over the next the three weeks.
The tour is an example of 30p. fruitful co-operation between trade UNORISES aestheid activists in the North The speakers represent the South African Trade Unions, to Inter- African Zimbabwe People's Union and of and Africa.
TUC and Association of follows: 2 menester 31 Mara Manchester.
AP-X Traction Preston Tamese Trades tini. anSAccrington Congress of Zimbabwe Union, South West African People's Organisation. There will also be trade union speakers from NUM, companies dealing with South The dates for the tour are as . Basement Theatre, Blackpool for April GEC and Trafford Park Apri Trades Council, 7 Apri The council, reston Poly 1 2a April, LPS cos rende tries,
HE DISSOLUTION of Newtonian around the middle of the 19th century and accelerated towards its end, had left physics stranded in a series of disconnected and apparently contractoy incones of une nature of the physical world 1102018 Einstein was the great innovator and synthesiser who, anybody else, helped the process of the integration of these theories into a new science that today stretches from the elementary particles of matter to the birth and construction of the UNCISC He thus did for modern science what Galileo and Newton had done for the whole preceding period.
Moreover, this was not simply a 'theoretical' achievement: Einstein's discoveries opened the door to an avalanche of new ideas which already transforming the productive forces at our disposal.
Genetic engineering and computers, laser technology and superconductivity, nuclear power and solar cells, television and plastics technology - all these in one way or trace their Einstein's scientific work.
It is no wonder, therefore, that the whole world has been joining in the celebration of the centenary of his birth. The Americans have launched a satellite named after him, to monitor and record X-ray radiation from outer space. Proud of his US citizenship, they are erecting statues and printing commemorative stamps.
Will they mention his horror on hearing the news of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Guilt for the role he played in the production of the American A-bomb haunted Einstein for the rest started which we more than are lineage to continuum was nian geometry.
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accidental empty particular Matter But the matter gravitational ycars ago, expanding Theory of Relativity, which replaced the cold and harmonious Newtonian universe with an unstable space-time commated by matter.
Euclidean three-dimensional space four-dimensional space of Rieman- replaced by the -CULYCI Only in the small regions of this universe, small enough to appear flat, Newtonian mechanics still apply. Far from matter being an creation in otherwise and time -Einstein showed that it was matter which created time and space. As he used to put it himself, God had no choice about how to construct the universe.
While in the Special Theory it is the behaviour of light which links space and time, in General Relativity it is the behaviour matter curves the surrounding space-time by means of gravitational force, and when agitated causes this warped continuum to ripple with gravitational waves.
gravitational force is relatively weak, so that only very violent disturbance of a large quantity can waves sufficiently strong to be detected by By a happy coincidence, it was this year that the waves postulated by Einstein in 1916 were detected for the first time - even if only indirectly The General Theory of Relativity is the theory of how the universe is; it therefore also indicates how it came to be. It supports the view that the universe came into existence with a big explosion of some primaeval "atom' of matter about twenty billion AROUNKIE been ever since. Indeed, the original bang