Glitches like this one were the reason einstein worked so hard at coming up with a new explanation. he wanted to account for everything. his ideas about curving space may sound bizarre, but they work! they took care of the gaps in newton's theory and explained mercury's orbit. they led scientists to predict shifting starlight and black holes. all of this is powerful evidence that einstein was on to something. —a black hole is not a hole, carolyn cinami decristofano based on this passage, draw a conclusion about what einstein was like as a scientist.

In the sweet hereafter and the following poem, what does the newborn symbolize? "every death is magic from the enemy to be avenged" by brooks haxton when fever burned the last light out of my daughter's eyes, i swore to find and kill the ones to blame. men must mount the long boat in the dark with spears. at dawn, where the flowering spicebush hid my scent, i crouched. a young wife, newborn slung across her chest, came first for spring water. she stooped. my god, for vengeance, spoke her secret name inside my ear. her god stepped back with no scream, his right hand at his mouth, the knuckles clenched between the pointed teeth. death is not evil. innocence of childhood the continuing cycle of life and death the children that will never be born