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The New Philosophy of Modern Science

The New Philosophy of Modern Science

Strong, William Walker

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ISBN10: 1458930106
ISBN13: 9781458930101
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.17 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1920. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... XIII. 34. THE ULTIMATE UNITS AND THE PARTITIONING OF ENERGY. Science speaks of kinetic, potential and radiant energy. Philosophy sometimes speaks of vital energy. Energy has invariably been measured in terms of the coordinates of time and space. This view is in accordance with our assumption that the basic units are those of the second, the centimeter and the gram. The collapse of Newtonian mechanics in the electron world has shown that this system of units cannot be ultimate. The language or the flux of the objective world, and most probably of the subjective world too, consists of entities of energy. The other entities are hidden Containers or abodes and serve as the sources and the sinks of energy. The complexity of phenomena is therefore the complexity of the structures of energy. The Invariancies of the external entities are the Invariancies of their relations with energy. The idea of direction is essentially that of energy relations. All the knowledge of the soul of the objective world has been attributed to the quanta of energy that flow into it through the senses. The law of the conservation of energy is a necessary condition of conservation of the entities of the external world if there is to be any conservation at all. All change is accordingly the continual partitioning of energy. All collisions and relations are energy interchanges. The unities of the external world are to be attributed to the unities of certain quanta of energy. If then we are to assign such an exclusive role to energetics it follows that all the fundamental and basic characteristics of language and numbers must be found in energy structures. The ultimate entities must be quanta or the properties of energy quanta. (79) THE LABORATORY EXPERIENCE OF THE OBJECTIVE WORLD SUPPORTS THE VI...

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