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...light within a single geometrical framework. Some time ago he concocted relativistic field equations in which particles were treated as "singularities" in the field. Dr. Silberstein carried this out for a two-particle problem, found that, though all stress between the particles disappeared, they remained stationary. Since either Newtonian or Einsteinian gravity would require them to fall together, this seemed to be a reductio ad absurdum. The New York tabloid Daily News headlines: SILBER TOPS EIN WHEN STEIN MEETS STEIN...
Last week's examination given to 530 students in a first-year survey course in the humanities, set an "open book" record for youth and number of examinees. A sample question: "Is Hellenistic science or medieval science nearer akin to the science of the Newtonian epoch? In what ways?" A question TiMEreaders should be able to answer without notes: "Give one example of a case where...
...splitting of spectrum lines when light comes from an electromagnetic field). Independently of the de Broglie wave mechanics, he devised an abstruse mathematical description of electronic behavior which he called "matrix mechanics." He saw the necessity of a wave concept as well as anyone else, but he followed the Newtonian principle that hypotheses should be avoided. In the light of wave mechanics alone, electrons lost their individualities, melted into a continuous field of negative electricity. But there was strong experimental evidence of "discontinuity," of individuality. For example, single electrons made tracks which could be photographed. Thus the election became...
...avoiding most of the errors of modern popularizers of science. Not sufficiently accurate, perhaps, to conform to the standards of Professor Whitehead, it is clearly written and stimulates the reader's thought; it is an excellent introduction to the rather febrile speculations which have grown out of the Post-Newtonian physics...
...Thrasymachus, of Philo in Hume's "Dialogues," and of Bertrand Russell in his most willfully tough-minded moods, Professor Becker works within the limitations of the naturalistic philosophy. This fact has led him into a fundamental error--or at least a fundamental omission. "Obviously the disciples of the Newtonian philosophy had not ceased to worship. . . having denatured God, they deified nature." "The eighteenth century Philosophers, like the medieval scholastics, held fast to a revealed body of knowledge. . ." "The ideas (Dderot's) are essentially Christian .!): for the worship of God, Diderot has substituted respect for posterity; for the hopes of immortality...