INDEX

A B C of physics, xiv, 88

A priori probability, 77, 244, 305

Absolute, 23, 56; past and future,

48, 57, 295; elsewhere, 49, 50;

values, 288, 331; future perfect,

307

Absorption of light, 184, 186

Abstractions, 53

Accelerated frames of reference, 113

Acceleration, relativity of, 129

Action, 180, 241; atom of, 182

Actuality, 266, 319

Aether, nature of, 31

Aether-drag, 3

Age of the sun, 169

And, study of, 104

Anthropomorphic conception of

deity, 282, 337, 341

Antisymmetrical properties of

world, 236

Ape-like ancestors, 16, 81, 273

Apple (Newton’s), 111, 115

Arrow, Time’s, 69, 79, 88, 295

Astronomer Royal’s time, 36, 40

Atom, structure of, 1, 190, 199, 224

Atom of action, 182. See Quantum

Atomicity, laws of, 236, 245

Averages, 300

Awareness, 16, 334

Background of pointer readings,

137, 255, 259, 268, 330, 339

Balance sheet, 33

Beats, 216

Beauty, 105, 267, 350

Becoming, 68, 87

Beginning of time, 83

Berkeley, Bishop, xii, 326

Beta () particle, 59

Bifurcation of the world, 236

Billiard ball atoms, 2, 259

Blessed gods (Hegel), 147, 155

Bohr, N., 2, 185, 191, 196, 220,

306

Boltzmann, L., 63

Bombardment, molecular, 113, 131

Born, M., 208

Bose, S. N., 203

Bragg, W. H., 194

Brain, 260, 268, 279, 311, 323

Broad, C. D., 160

de Broglie, L., 201, 202

Building material, 230

Bursar, 237

Casual and essential characteristics,

142

Categories, xi, 105

Causality, 297

Cause and effect, 295

Cepheid variables, 165

Chalk, calculation of motion of, 107

Chance, 72, 77, 189

Classical laws and quantum laws,

193, 195, 308

Classical physics, 4

Clifford, W. K., 278

Clock, 99, 134, 154

Code-numbers, 55, 81, 235, 277

Coincidences, 71

Collection-box theory, 187, 193

Colour and wave-length, 88, 94,

329, 341

Commonsense knowledge, 16

Companion of Sirius, 203

Comparability of relations, 232

Compensation of errors, 12

Concrete, 273

Configuration space, 219

Conservation, laws of, 236, 241

Constellations, subjectivity of, 95,

106, 241

Contiguous relations, 233

Contraction, FitzGerald, 5, 24;

reality of, 32, 53

Controlling laws, 151, 245

Conversion, 336

Conviction, 333, 350

Co-ordinates, 208, 231

Copenhagen school, 195

Correspondence principle, 196

Counts of stars, 163

Crudeness of scale and clock survey,

154

Curvature of space-time, 119, 127,

157; coefficients of, 120, 155

Cyclic method of physics, 260, 277,

348

Cylindrical curvature, 139

Darwin, G. H., 171

Deflection of light by gravity, 122

Demon (gravitation), 118, 309

Dense matter, 203

Design, 77

Detailed balancing, principle of, 80

Determinism, 228, 271, 294, 303, 310

Differential equations, 282, 329, 341

Diffraction of electrons, 202

Dimension, fourth, 52; beyond

fourth, 120, 158, 219

Dirac, P. A. M., 208, 219, 270

Directed radius, 140

Direction, relativity of, 26

Distance, relativity of, 25; inscrutable

nature of, 81; macroscopic

character, 155, 201

Door, scientific ingress through, 342

Doppler effect, 45, 184

Double stars, 175

Dual recognition of time, 51, 91, 99,

334, 352

Duration and becoming, 79, 99

Dynamic quality of time, 68, 90, 92,

260

Eclipses, prediction of, 149, 299

Ego, 97, 282, 315

Egocentric attitude of observer, 15,

61, 112

Einstein, A., 1, 53, 111, 185, 203

Einstein’s law of gravitation, 120,

139, 151, 260; law of motion,

124

Einstein’s theory, 20, 111

Electrical theory of matter, 2, 6

Electromagnetism, 236

Electron, 3; mass of, 59; extension

in time, 146; in the atom, 188,

199, 224; nature of, 279, 290

Elephant, problem of, 251

Elliptical space, 289

Elsewhere, 42

Emission of light, 183, 191, 216

Encounters of stars, 177

Engineer, superseded by mathematician,

104, 209

Entropy, 74, 105

Entropy-change and Becoming, 88

Entropy-clock, 101

Environment, 288, 328

Epistemology, 225, 304

Erg-seconds, 179

Essential characteristics, 142

Euclidean geometry, 159

Events, location of, 41; point-events,

49

Evolution, irreversibility of, 91; in

stellar system, 167, 176

Exact science, 250

Existence, 286

Experience, 288, 328

Explanation, scientific ideal of, xiii,

138, 209, 248

Extensive abstraction, method of,

249

External world, 284

Familiar and scientific worlds, xiii,

247, 324

Fictitious lengths, 19

Field, 153

Field-physics, 236

Finite but unbounded space, 80, 139,

166, 289

FitzGerald contraction, 5, 24; reality

of, 32, 53

Flat world, 118, 138

Flatness of galaxy, 164

Force, 124

Formality of taking place, 68

Fortuitous concourse of atoms, 77,

251

Fourth dimension, 52, 231

Fowler, R. H., 204

Frames of space and time, 14, 20,

35, 61, 112, 155

Freak (solar system), 176

Freewill, 295

Fullness of space, measures of, 153

Future, relative and absolute, 48;

see Predictability

Future life, 351

Future perfect tense, 307

Galactic system, 163

Geloeology, 335

General theory of relativity, 111,

129

Generation of Waves by Wind,

316

Geodesic, 125

Geometrisation of physics, 136

Geometry, 133, 157, 161

Grain of the world, 48, 55, 56, 90

Gravitation, relative and absolute

features, 114; as curvature,

118; law of, 120, 139; explanation

of, 138, 145

Greenland, 117

Gross appliances, survey with, 154

Growth, idea of, 87

Group velocity, 213

, 179, 183, 223

Halo of reality, 282, 285, 290

Hamilton, W. R., 181

Hamiltonian differentiation, 240

Heaven, 351

Hegel, 147

Heisenberg, W., 206, 220, 228, 306

Heredity, 250

Here-Now, 41

Heterodyning, 216

Hour-glass figures, 48

House that Jack Built, 262

Hubble, E. P., 167

Humour, 322, 335

Humpty Dumpty, 64

Huxley, T. H., 173

Hydrodynamics, 242, 316

Hydrogen, 3

Hyperbolic geometry, 136

Hypersphere, 81, 157

(square root of -1), 135, 146,

208

Identical laws, 237

Identity replacing causation, 156

Illusion, 320

Impossibility and improbability, 75

Impressionist scheme of physics, 103

Indeterminacy, principle of, 220,

306

Inertia, 124

Inference, chain of, 270, 298

Infinity, 80

Infra-red photography, 173

Inner Light, 327

Insight, 89, 91, 268, 277, 311,

339

Instants, world-wide, 43

Integers, 220, 246

Interval, 37, 261

Intimate and symbolic knowledge,

321

Introspection, 321

Invariants, 23

Inventory method, 103, 106, 280,

341

Inverse-square law, 29

Island universes, 165

Isotropic directed curvature, 144

Jabberwocky, 291

Jeans, J. H., 176, 187

Johnson, Dr., 326

Jordan, P., 208

Knowable to mind, 264

Knowledge, nature of physical, 257,

304; complete, 226

Laplace, 176

Laputans, 341

Larmor, J., 7

Laws of Nature, 237, 244

Laws of thought, 345

Lenard, P., 130

Length, 6, 160. See Distance

Life on other planets, 170

Life-insurance, 300

Lift, man in the, 111

Light, velocity of, 46, 54; emission

of, 183, 191, 216

Likeness between relations, 232

Limitations of physical knowledge,

257

Linkage of scientific and familiar

worlds, xiii, 88, 156, 239, 249

Location, frames of, 14, 41

Logos, 338

Longest track, law of, 125, 135,

148

Lorentz, H. A., 7

Lowell, P., 174

Luck, rays of, 190

Lumber (in world building), 235,

243

Macroscopic survey, 154, 227, 299,

304

Man, 169, 178

Man-years, 180

Mars, 172

Mass, increase with velocity, 39, 50,

59

Mathematician, 161, 209, 337, 347

Matrix, 208

Matter, 1, 31, 156, 203, 248,

262

Maxwell, J. C., 8, 60, 156, 237

Measures of structure, 234, 268

Mechanical models, 209

Mechanics and Geometry, 137

Mendelian theory, 250

Mental state, 279

Metric, 142, 153

Metrical and non-metrical properties,

275

Michelson-Morley experiment, 5, 11

Microscopic analysis, reaction from,

103

Milky Way, 163

Miller, D. C., 5

Mind and matter, 259, 268, 278;

selection by mind, 239, 243, 264

Mind-stuff, 276

Minkowski, H., 34, 53

Mirror, distortion by moving, 11

Models, 198, 209, 344

Molecular bombardment, 113, 131

Momentum, 153, 208, 223, 239, 262

Monomarks, 231

Moon, origin of, 171

Morley, E. W., 5

Motion, law of, 123

Multiplicationist, 86

Multiplicity of space and time

frames, 20, 35, 61

Myself, 42, 53

Mysticism, defence of, 323; religious,

338

Nautical Almanac, 150

Nebulae, 165

Nebular observers, 9, 12

Neptune, 49

Neutral stuff, 280

Neutral wedge, 48

New quantum theory, 206

Newton, 111, 122, 201; quotation

from, 111

Newtonian scheme, 4, 18, 125

Non-empty space, 127, 153, 238

Non-Euclidean geometry, 157

Nonsense, problem of, 344

Now-lines, 42, 47, 49, 184

Nucleus of atom, 3

Objectivity of “becoming”, 94;

of a picture, 107

Observer, attributes of, 15, 337

Odds, 301, 303

Official scientific attitude, 286, 334

Operator, 208

Orbit jumps of electron, 191, 196,

205, 215, 300, 312

Organisation, 68, 70, 104

Ought, 345

Oxygen and vegetation, 174

’s and ’s, 208, 223, 327

Pacific Ocean, 171

Particle, 202, 211, 218

Past, relative and absolute, 48

Pedantry, 340, 342

Permanence, 241

Personal aspect of spiritual world,

337

Phoenix complex, 85

Photoelectric effect, 187

Photon, 190

Physical time, 40

Picture and paint, 106

Picture of gravitation, 115, 138, 157

Plan, Nature’s, 27

Planck, M., 185

Plurality of worlds, 169

Pointer readings, 251

Ponderomotive force, 237

Porosity of matter, 1

Potential (gravitational), 261

Potential energy, 213

Potential gradient, 96

Pound sterling, relativity of, 26

Predestination, 293, 303

Predictability of events, 147, 228,

300, 307

Primary law, 66, 75, 98; insufficiency

of, 107

Primary scheme of physics, 76, 129,

295

Principal curvature, 120, 139

Principia, 4

Principle of Correspondence, 196

Principle of detailed balancing, 80

Principle of indeterminacy, 220, 306

Probability, 216, 315

Proof and plausibility, 337

Proper-distance, 25

Proper-time, 37

Proportion, sense of, 341

Proton, 3

Psi (), 216, 305

Pure mathematician, 161, 337, 347

Purpose, 105

-numbers, 208, 270

Quantum, 184; size of, 200

Quantum laws, 193

Quantum numbers, 191, 205

Quest of the absolute, 26, 122; of

science, 110, 287; of reality, 328

Quotations from

Boswell, 326

Brooke, Rupert, 317

Clifford, W. K., 278

Dickens, 32

Einstein, A., 294

Hegel, 147

Huxley, T. H., 173

Kronecker, L., 246

Lamb, H., 316

Lewis Carroll, 28, 291, 344

Milton, 167

Newton, 111

Nursery Rhymes, 64, 70, 262

Omar Khayyam, 64, 293

O’Shaughnessy, A., 325

Russell, Bertrand, 160, 278

Quotations from (cont.)

Shakespeare, 21, 39, 83, 292, 330

Swift, 341

Whitehead, A. N., 145

Radiation pressure, 58

Random element, 64; measurement

of, 74

Reality, meaning of, 282, 326

Really true, 34

Rectification of curves, 125

Rejuvenescence, theories of, 85, 169

Relata and relations, 230

Relativity of velocity, 10, 54, 59, 61;

of space-frames, 21; of magnetic

field, 22; of distance, 25;

of pound sterling, 26; of Now

(simultaneity), 46, 61; of acceleration,

129; of standard of

length, 143

Religion, 194, 281, 288, 322, 324,

326, 333, 349

Retrospective symbols, 307, 308

Revolutions of scientific thought, 4,

352

Right frames of space, 18, 20

Roemer, O., 43

Rotating masses, break-up of, 176

Running down of universe, 63, 84

Russell, B., 160, 277, 278

Rutherford, E., 2, 327

Scale (measuring), 12, 18, 24, 134,

141

Schrödinger’s theory, 199, 210, 225,

305

Scientific and familiar worlds, xiii,

247, 324

Second law of thermodynamics, 74,

86

Secondary law, 75, 79, 98

Seen-now lines, 44, 47

Selection by mind, 239, 243, 264,

330

Self-comparison of space, 145

Sense-organs, 51, 96, 266, 329

Shadows, world of, xiv, 109

Shuffling, 63, 92, 184

Sidereal universe, 163

Signals, speed of, 57

Significances, 108, 329

Simultaneity, 49, 61

Singularities, 127

Sirius, Companion of, 203

de Sitter, W., 167

Slithy toves, 291

Solar system, origin of, 176

Solar system type of atom, 2, 190

Sorting, 93

Space, 14, 16, 51, 81, 137

Spasmodic moon, 226

Spatial relations, 50

Spectral lines, 205, 216; displacement

of, 121, 166

Spherical curvature, radius of,

140

Spherical space, 82, 166, 289; radius

of, 167

Spiral nebulae, 165

Spiritual world, 281, 288, 324, 349

Standard metre, 141

Stars, number of, 163; double, 175;

evolution of, 176; white

dwarfs, 203

States, 197, 301

Statistical laws, 244; mind’s interference

with, 313

Statistics, 201, 300, 303

Stratification, 47

Stress, 129, 155, 262

Structure, 234, 277

Sub-aether, 211, 219

Subjective element in physics, 95,

241

Substance, ix, 273, 318

Success, physical basis of, 346

Sun, as a star, 164; age of, 169

Supernatural, 309, 348

Survey from within, 145, 321, 330

Sweepstake theory, 189

Symbolism in science, xiii, 209, 247,

269, 324

Synthetic method of physics, 249

Temperature, 71

Temporal relations, 50

Tensor, 257

Tensor calculus, 181

Thermodynamical equilibrium, 77

Thermodynamics, second law of,

66, 74, 86

Thermometer as entropy-clock, 99,

101

Thinking machine, 259

Thought, 258; laws of, 345

Time in physics, 36; time lived

(proper-time), 40; dual recognition

of, 51, 100; time’s arrow,

69; infinity of, 83; summary of

conclusions, 101; time-triangles,

133; reality of, 275

Time-scale in astronomy, 167

Touch, sense of, 273

Track, longest, 125, 135, 148

Trade Union of matter, 126

Transcendental laws, 245

Traveller, time lived by, 39, 126,

135

Triangles in space and time, 133

Tug of gravitation, 115, 122

Undoing, 65

Unhappening, 94, 108

Uniformity, basis of, 145

Unknowable entities, 221, 308

Utopia, 265

Values, 243, 330

Vegetation on Mars, 173

Velocity, relativity of, 10; upper

limit to, 56

Velocity through aether, 30, 32

Velocity of light, 46, 54

Venus, 170

Victorian physicist, ideals of, 209,

259

View-point, 92, 283

Void, 13, 137

Volition, 310

Watertight compartments, 194

Wave-group, 213, 217, 225

Wave-length, measurement of, 24

Wave-mechanics, 211

Wave-theory of matter, 202

Wavicle, 201

Wells, H. G., 67

White dwarfs, 203

Whitehead, A. N., 145, 249

Whittaker, E. T., 181

Winding up of universe, 83

World building, 230

World-lines, 253

Worm, four-dimensional, 42, 87, 92

Wright, W. H., 172

Wrong frames of reference, 116

X (Mr.), 262, 268