Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Science: Dynamic Universe
A literary philosopher with a theatrical ancestry and a chemical education is James Medbery MacKaye of Dartmouth College. Last week he spellbound the American Philosophical Association, meeting in Manhattan, with his picture of a dynamic universe. The philosophers applauded the MacKaye universe as more perceivable and understandable than Dr. Albert Einstein's, more realistic than Sir Isaac Newton's.
In the Newton universe as interpreted today, especially by Professor Dayton Clarence Miller of Case School of Applied Science, a tenuous substance called ether pervades all space and things. This ether can be considered...
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