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...said by the government, slain over five thousand officials and citizens in the past month. Observers hold it also responsible for the program in Kielce last summer and for most of the anti-Semitic activity that has ensued. Unfortunately this traitorous opposition has insinuated itself into a common continuum with the more sincere critics of the current regime. This presents the problem of the government's arbitrary drawing of the line between opposition and treason, and action which involves a great danger. But there is also a danger, perhaps a greater danger, in those extremists whom Mr. Mikolajezyk...
Nevertheless, mind, like the brain and body it inhabits, has evolved. Here Physiologist Sherrington is mightily puzzled. "The present individual is the latest bud from an energy-pattern which has without intermission been throwing off buds of its pattern for these last 20 million years or more. . . . The continuum is a material continuum. ... But the long history [of the psychical component] has not been a continuous one. It has been a succession of brief discontinuities. ... At the beginning of each successive generation of the energy-system, the psyche lapsed, only to appear after that physical system had reached a certain...
...occupies the opening chapters, and how it was devised by Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, and others to account for phenomena as they saw them. Next is detailed the new facts about light and magnetics, and its replacement by the current theories of four dimensions, quanta, relativity, and the time-space continuum. Each problem is outlined as it arises in a logical approach, and each theory gets its day in court, with the difficulties that led to its formation, the events it explains, and the new difficulties that lead to its revision and rejection...
...poor Irish sailor, Sullivan was one of the world's four or five most brilliant interpreters of physics to the world of common men-physics being a prosaic name for that vast branch of science which embraces the giddiest reaches of the universe, the four-dimensional time-space continuum of Relativity, the hidden dance and pulsations of electrons. He was also a novelist, a musician, a philosopher-above all, a dreamer...
...third, found that the classic Relativity equations could be altered to take particles and electric fields into account with no more drastic change than a simple elimination of denominators. The solutions came out free of "singularities," and they described a space radically different from the old four-dimensional continuum. The new space was a system of two identical "sheets" joined here & there by what Dr. Einstein and his associate deemed best to call "bridges." The bridges turned out to be particles. The properties of one bridge identified it as a particle with mass but no electric charge, like the hypothetical...