...Indeed, he challenges investigation by his statement, "If the displacement of spectral lines toward the red by the gravitational potential does not exist,...the general theory of relativity will be untenable." Relativity, p. 159. The adoption of that scientific attitude in the field of stammering would relieve...

...Einstein wrote in 1918, several years before the shift was finally observed on the companion of Sirius: "If the displacement of spectral lines towards the...the general theory of relativity will be untenable." It ia theories permitting such categorical statements that scientists demand. The theories of Newton,...

...whole-hearted acceptance of the theory. As Professor Einstein himself admitted three years ago — " If the displacement of spectral lines towards the...the general theory of relativity will be untenable." Two distinguished astronomers — Mr. Evershed, who has just retired from the post of director of the...

...says bluntly of one such proposed test, "If the displacement of spectral lines toward the red . . . does not exist, then the general theory of relativity will be untenable" (Relativity). Here we have again the persistent and striking difference between science and nonscience...

...been engaging our attention here, in a paper by E. Freundlich entitled "Zur Priifung der aligemeinen Relativitats-Theorie" (Die Naturwissenschaften, 1919,...information as to the mass of the heavenly bodies. NOTE. — The displacement of spectral lines towards the red end of the spectrum was definitely established...