The theories of Prof. Albert Einstein and those of other theoretical physicists and mathematicians were attacked here this week-end by Viscount Samuel, who has been president of the Royal Institute of Philosophy since 1931.
Lord Samuel, who was the first British High Commissioner for Palestine, described Prof. Einstein’s space-time concepts as abstractions which were unsound as a basis for scientific observation that any philosopher would accept. Instead, he offered a concept of “two-stage energic other” as an alternative to the space-time continuum of relativity, Lord Samuel, who used a statement of Prof. Einstein’s to buttress his argument, was challenged afterwards by theoretical physicists, many of whom crowded the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to hear him.
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