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Does "with their aid" refer to "with the assistance from Einstein and Aston"?

 
 
Reply Thu 8 Oct, 2015 09:23 pm

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"If Einstein's equation and Aston's curve are even roughly correct, as I'm sure they are, for Dr. Cameron and I have computed with their aid the maximum energy evolved in radioactive change and found it to check well with observation, then this supposition of an energy evolution through the disintegration of the common elements is from the one point of view a childish Utopian dream, and from the other a foolish bugaboo." [27]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Andrews_Millikan#Westinghouse_time_capsule
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Reply Thu 8 Oct, 2015 09:30 pm
@oristarA,
Not quite. The antecedents to the pronoun "their" would be Einstein's equation and Aston's curve, not Einstein and Aston themselves.
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Reply Fri 9 Oct, 2015 01:54 am
@FBM,
Cool.
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