1929. The course of Gifford Lectures that Eddington delivered in the University of Edinburgh in January to March 1927. It treats of the philosophical outcome of the great changes of scientific thought which have recently come about. The theory of relativity and the quantum theory have led to strange new conceptions of the physical world; the progress of the principles of thermodynamics has wrought more gradual but no less profound change. The first eleven chapters are for the most part occupied with the new physical theories, with the reasons which have led to their adoption, and especially with the conceptions which seem to underlie them. The aim is to make clear the scientific view of the world as it stands at the present day, and, where it is incomplete, to judge the direction in which modern ideas appear to be tending. In the last four chapters I consider the position which this scientific view should occupy in relation to the wider aspects of human experience, including religion. Contents: The Downfall of Classical Physics; Relativity; Time; The Running-Down of the Universe; Becoming; Gravitation-the Law; Gravitation-the Explanation; Man's Place in the Universe; The Quantum Theory; The New Quantum Theory; World Building; Pointer Readings; Reality; Causation; and Science and Mysticism.
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This is an extremely good book that contains a series of lectures delivered to lay audience by this great physicist. It reveals the deep meaning behind the mathematical symbols and equations in modern physics. It's incomparable in this regard. The book is very easy to understand. The writing flows smoothly and beautifully. Great metaphors comes out effortlessly, one after another. It is very enjoyable reading.
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This book started me on physics, way way back. I wish it were in print gain.
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- The Analysis of Matter by Bertrand Russell on page 278
- The Principle of Relativity (Dover Books on Physics) by Albert Einstein on page 145
- The Correspondence Principle (1918 - 1923) by Niels Henrik David Bohr on page 196
- Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll on page 67
- The Nature of the Physical World by Sir Arthur S. Eddington in Front Matter
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- Matter And Spirit In The Universe: Scientific And Religious Preludes To Modern Cosmology (History of Modern Physical Sciences) by Helge Kragh on page 110, page 194, and Back Matter
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