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One night I saw a TV program, Einstein's Universe. I turned it on because it was narrated by Peter Ustinov, whom I admire, even though I'm tired of Einstein's universe. The program was well done. A great effort was made to make a clear and convincing dramatization of the universe according to Einstein; just enough mystique to sugar the dull sterility of science. What bothered me most was the subservient role of Peter Ustinov playing an average man who didn't know science, feeling privileged to be let in on the secrets and instructed in the Sacred Doctrine.

Now Peter Ustinov, who probably has higher brain radiation that Einstein, at any rate a witty and delightful human, could only betray himself by an occasional inflection or intonation; as a good actor he could not depart from the script. So I got the message that the real meaning of the program was the takeover of one culture by another -- like the Spanish missionaries building churches where an Inca temple had been before, or the Christians building churches with columns taken from a Greek temple. What remains of our human culture (represented by Peter) cowed and put to rout by the Legions of Science.

This is Medusa in modern dress, and if we're going to deal with it we must do so as did Perseus. We need the shield of Minerva. We must use the mind to slay the mind.

The TV program discussed one of the major themes of the Einstein theory, which is to replace the force of gravity by the curvature of space. The program presented this visually with a table whose surface was shaped like the mouth of a trumpet with a grid of white lines which made the curvature visible. A ball was rolled by the obliging Peter to show how the curvature of space caused the ball to roll around the central sun: "The mass informs the space and the space informs the matter."

I could not help protesting at this point, why then do we need "gravitons?" Why, in fact, is the curvature of space a better explanation than a force? Here we must realize that both gravitons and space curvature are inventions of science to avoid the "elusive" notion of force (Eddington's phrase). Gravitons replace a force with a shower of particles, a desperate expedient to concretize with particles what is ontologically prior to particles. Curvature of space as the explanation of force is another expedient to describe what is prior to objectivity in objective terms. Of the two, space curvature is better because it is equivalent. If we drive a car around a curve, or take a corner at high speed, we are thrown violently to one side. The force and the curved path are equivalent.

What should not be forgotten, however, is that it is not curved space that is equivalent to force, but motion in a curved path. The effort to conceptualize force deludes us by a trick. We still have to invest this static picture with actual motion. Motion, of course, also cannot be conceptualized. In fact, it is not a sense datum, as the so-called paradox of Zeno disclosed, though even this point is overlooked by philosophers.

In other words, motion in a curved path is two removes from sense data. Sense data give us the position of an object in space. To know velocity we have to have two observations of position together with the elapsed time, and we can then compute the velocity (feet per second). But to know acceleration or to know that the body is moving in a curved path, we need three determinations. Three points determine a curve. As before, we must also have the time elapsed in order to say how rapidly the velocity has changed, or has changed direction, for a change in velocity or in direction are both acceleration.

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