The mysterious universe
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1930
- Publisher
- CUP Archive
- Retrieved
- Jun 6, 2012
- ISBN
- rrI8AAAAIA
2 memes from this reference
Humans See the World Through Mathematical Spectacles
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical spectacles. Just as a man wearing blue spectacles would see only a blue world, so Kant thought that, with our mental bias, we tend to see only a…
The Universe is Made Up of Two Kinds of Waves
The tendency of modern physics is to resolve the whole material universe into waves, and nothing but waves. These waves are of two kinds: bottled-up waves, which we call matter, and unbottled waves, which we call radiation or light. If annihilation of matter occurs, the process is merely that of unbottling imprisoned…