Professor Albert Einstein today upset one of the ideas which has been generally accepted as a basis of his relativity theory.
He told interviewers that space may be infinite after all. The famous Jewish savant was in town to speak before the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Hitherto the concept that space is limited or finite has been regarded as fundamental to the relativity theory, so that Dr. Einstein’s remark today amounts to
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