Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Jeans , Sir James Hopwood (1930), The mysterious universe, CUP Archive, Retrieved on 2012-06-06
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    06 JUN 2012

     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 mathematical world.
    Folksonomies: mathematics perception
    Folksonomies: mathematics perception
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    But what is the alternative?

    06 JUN 2012

     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 wave-energy and setting it free to travel through space. These concepts reduce the whole universe to a world of light, potential or existent, so that the whole story of its creat...
    Folksonomies: energy waves matter
    Folksonomies: energy waves matter
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    Bottled up waves in matter and the roaming waves of radiation.

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