- 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