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...spent most of their time trying to find some way to mend the painful gap between Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, bickering politely about the validity and application of physical theories, asking themselves what physical reality is after all. Bohr criticized de Broglie and almost everyone present criticized Sir Arthur Eddington. Altogether they gave the impression of giants wallowing in a quagmire...
TIMES change. Before the war, what was missing from the American scene was "a good five-cent cigar." One of the Gods of the present generation is Science, and the efforts of Wells, Durant Eddington, Jeans, and others to explain what the new theoretical science means left unsatisfied the persistent statement that "what this country needs is a good two-dollar explanation of Relativity...
...prickly dissatisfaction with the existing popularizations of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. These have appeared in a steady stream since-to his complete bewilderment-his newspaper fame flowered in the 1920s. It is noteworthy that Einstein's book contains none of the mystical discursions of Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans. The cast of characters in The Evolution of Physics does not include...
...given by Britain's brilliant, opinionated Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, the seven fundamental constants of Nature...
...first four constants are fundamental to Quantum Mechanics, which deals with the microcosm of the atom. The last two are fundamental to four-dimensional spacetime, which deals with the macrocosm of the universe. The velocity of light, c, is fundamental to both. According to Eddington, c is the natural "grain" of world structure. It is the velocity which cannot be surpassed, the speed at which masses become infinite, clocks stop, measuring rods contract to zero...