Einstein and Eddington Page #4

- Yes.

Good.

Who else?

Beethoven?

Too personal.

He makes me feel...

Yes?

Nothing.

What does he make you feel?

Naked.

Music and physics are nourished

by the same sort of longing.

I don't know anything about physics.

Good!

Good.

That is, what I mean to say is...

...that it will have to be music...

Between us.

It's only noon.

Your lecture's not until two.

- I know.

- Where are you going?

- My friend William, his train is leaving.

- When?

Now. You were right about friends

and how one must say things.

Ah, not so fast!

May I have a light, sir?

Eddington!

Come to see the regiment off?

Yes.

This is my son, Raymond.

Hello.

- Lady Shirley, you know.

- Yes.

It's a proud day to be English.

And to be in England.

- Yes, good luck.

- Won't need luck.

On you go, my boy. Go on, Raymond.

I'll get the door. On you get.

I wasn't given

much time to prepare this.

We have, I think, most of us, been

the victims of Sir Oliver's requests.

Albert Einstein

has no regard for the conventions of

scientific presentation.

Even his mathematical symbols

are all of his own making.

To be frank, it might as well

be a foreign language.

But I decoded some of it.

He's suggesting that time is

at different speeds in the universe,

depending on how fast you're moving.

The faster you move,

the more time... slows down.

Time isn't the same everywhere?

That's what he says.

Yes, time isn't shared.

It's not an absolute.

What are his references?

None, but...

Acknowledgements?

None.

Does he propose how

any of this might be tested?

No, but that's not the point.

What is the point of theory

if it can't be tested?

What does he say about gravity?

Um...

Nothing.

What holds everything together?

What dictates

the motion of the planets?

What controls the life

of the universe as a whole?

Gravity.

Newton's laws.

Our map for everything.

So this Einstein, in other words,

has nothing to say

about the real world?

Eddington?

That's right, no.

It's not real.

Left them happy.

Was that your intention?

MAN:
Dirty Germans!

Germans make me sick!

Stop this!

Argh!

Leave these people alone!

Winnie, these are the Mullers,

a German family who need our help.

Let me clean you up.

It was horrible.

But it's over.

No, no, no, it's not that.

One of them asked a question

I didn't answer.

Who?

At the lecture.

He does say something about gravity.

Einstein?

He doesn't mention it, but if

you look properly, it's obvious.

He poses a question.

Turn this way a little.

Newton says that gravity

is instantaneous,

but Einstein says

that the speed of light

is the speed limit of the universe,

so gravity can't be instantaneous.

They can't both be right.

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