The Nature of the Physical World
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The Nature of the Physical World is by A. S. Eddington, Plumian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge, and is marked as The Gifford Lectures 1927. The text recalls two individuals whose tracks had the same terminal points, one of whom remained at home on the earth while the other travelled at high speed to a distant part of the universe and back. The text says the first of them recorded a lapse of 70 years, the second of one year.
The text says it is a rule of the Trade Union of matter that the longest possible time must be taken over every job. The text says that knowledge of the physical world has to be inferred from the nerve-messages which reach our brains. Under Linkage of Entropy with Becoming, the text pictures science replying to the remark 'Every day I grow better and better' with 'I see no signs of it.'
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- Arthur Stanley Eddington
- Reading time
- About 8 hours
- Pages
- 222
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Physics
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