Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Eddington, Arthur (2012-10-04), The Nature of the Physical World, Cambridge University Press, Retrieved on 2013-10-31
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    31 OCT 2013

     The Two Tables

    I have settled down to the task of writing these lectures and have drawn up my chairs to my two tables. Two tables! Yes; there are duplicates of every object about me—two tables, two chairs, two pens.... One of them has been familiar to me from earliest years. It is a commonplace object of that environment which I call the world. How shall I describe it? It has extension; it is comparatively permanent; it is coloured; above all it is substantial. By substantial I do not mean that it does n...
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    There is the table we see, and the table understood through quantum mechanics.

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