INDEX

A B C of physics, [xiv], [88]
A priori probability, [77], [244], [305]
Absolute, [23], [56]; past and future,
[48], [57], [295]; elsewhere, [49], [50];
values, [288], [331]; future perfect,
[307]
Absorption of light, [184], [186]
Abstractions, [53]
Accelerated frames of reference, [113]
Acceleration, relativity of, [129]
Action, [180], [241]; atom of, [182]
Actuality, [266], [319]
Aether, nature of, [31]
Aether-drag, [3]
Age of the sun, [169]
And, study of, [104]
Anthropomorphic conception of
deity, [282], [337], [341]
Antisymmetrical properties of
world, [236]
Ape-like ancestors, [16], [81], [273]
Apple (Newton’s), [111], [115]
Arrow, Time’s, [69], [79], [88], [295]
Astronomer Royal’s time, [36], [40]
Atom, structure of, [1], [190], [199], [224]
Atom of action, [182]. See [Quantum]
Atomicity, laws of, [236], [245]
Averages, [300]
Awareness, [16], [334]
Background of pointer readings,
[137], [255], [259], [268], [330], [339]
Balance sheet, [33]
Beats, [216]
Beauty, [105], [267], [350]
Becoming, [68], [87]
Beginning of time, [83]
Berkeley, Bishop, [xii], [326]
Beta (
) particle, [59]
Bifurcation of the world, [236]
Billiard ball atoms, [2], [259]
Blessed gods (Hegel), [147], [155]
Bohr, N., [2], [185], [191], [196], [220],
[306]
Boltzmann, L., [63]
Bombardment, molecular, [113], [131]
Born, M., [208]
Bose, S. N., [203]
Bragg, W. H., [194]
Brain, [260], [268], [279], [311], [323]
Broad, C. D., [160]
de Broglie, L., [201], [202]
Building material, [230]
Bursar, [237]
Casual and essential characteristics,
[142]
Categories, xi, [105]
Causality, [297]
Cause and effect, [295]
Cepheid variables, [165]
Chalk, calculation of motion of, [107]
Chance, [72], [77], [189]
Classical laws and quantum laws,
[193], [195], [308]
Classical physics, [4]
Clifford, W. K., [278]
Clock, [99], [134], [154]
Code-numbers, [55], [81], [235], [277]
Coincidences, [71]
Collection-box theory, [187], [193]
Colour and wave-length, [88], [94],
[329], [341]
Commonsense knowledge, [16]
Companion of Sirius, [203]
Comparability of relations, [232]
Compensation of errors, [12]
Concrete, [273]
Configuration space, [219]
Conservation, laws of, [236], [241]
Constellations, subjectivity of, [95],
[106], [241]
Contiguous relations, [233]
Contraction, FitzGerald, [5], [24];
reality of, [32], [53]
Controlling laws, [151], [245]
Conversion, [336]
Conviction, [333], [350]
Co-ordinates, [208], [231]
Copenhagen school, [195]
Correspondence principle, [196]
Counts of stars, [163]
Crudeness of scale and clock survey,
[154]
Curvature of space-time, [119], [127],
[157]; coefficients of, [120], [155]
Cyclic method of physics, [260], [277],
[348]
Cylindrical curvature, [139]
Darwin, G. H., [171]
Deflection of light by gravity, [122]
Demon (gravitation), [118], [309]
Dense matter, [203]
Design, [77]
Detailed balancing, principle of, [80]
Determinism, [228], [271], [294], [303], [310]
Differential equations, [282], [329], [341]
Diffraction of electrons, [202]
Dimension, fourth, [52]; beyond
fourth, [120], [158], [219]
Dirac, P. A. M., [208], [219], [270]
Directed radius, [140]
Direction, relativity of, [26]
[Distance], relativity of, [25]; inscrutable
nature of, [81]; macroscopic
character, [155], [201]
Door, scientific ingress through, [342]
Doppler effect, [45], [184]
Double stars, [175]
Dual recognition of time, [51], [91], [99],
[334], [352]
Duration and becoming, [79], [99]
Dynamic quality of time, [68], [90], [92],
[260]
Eclipses, prediction of, [149], [299]
Ego, [97], [282], [315]
Egocentric attitude of observer, [15],
[61], [112]
Einstein, A., [1], [53], [111], [185], [203]
Einstein’s law of gravitation, [120],
[139], [151], [260]; law of motion,
[124]
Einstein’s theory, [20], [111]
Electrical theory of matter, [2], [6]
Electromagnetism, [236]
Electron, [3]; mass of, [59]; extension
in time, [146]; in the atom, [188],
[199], [224]; nature of, [279], [290]
Elephant, problem of, [251]
Elliptical space, [289]
Elsewhere, [42]
Emission of light, [183], [191], [216]
Encounters of stars, [177]
Engineer, superseded by mathematician,
[104], [209]
Entropy, [74], [105]
Entropy-change and Becoming, [88]
Entropy-clock, [101]
Environment, [288], [328]
Epistemology, [225], [304]
Erg-seconds, [179]
Essential characteristics, [142]
Euclidean geometry, [159]
Events, location of, [41]; point-events,
[49]
Evolution, irreversibility of, [91]; in
stellar system, [167], [176]
Exact science, [250]
Existence, [286]
Experience, [288], [328]
Explanation, scientific ideal of, [xiii],
[138], [209], [248]
Extensive abstraction, method of,
[249]
External world, [284]
Familiar and scientific worlds, [xiii],
[247], [324]
Fictitious lengths, [19]
Field, [153]
Field-physics, [236]
Finite but unbounded space, [80], [139],
[166], [289]
FitzGerald contraction, [5], [24]; reality
of, [32], [53]
Flat world, [118], [138]
Flatness of galaxy, [164]
Force, [124]
Formality of taking place, [68]
Fortuitous concourse of atoms, [77],
[251]
Fourth dimension, [52], [231]
Fowler, R. H., [204]
Frames of space and time, [14], [20],
[35], [61], [112], [155]
Freak (solar system), [176]
Freewill, [295]
Fullness of space, measures of, [153]
Future, relative and absolute, [48];
see Predictability
Future life, [351]
Future perfect tense, [307]
Galactic system, [163]
Geloeology, [335]
General theory of relativity, [111],
[129]
Generation of Waves by Wind,
[316]
Geodesic, [125]
Geometrisation of physics, [136]
Geometry, [133], [157], [161]
Grain of the world, [48], [55], [56], [90]
Gravitation, relative and absolute
features, [114]; as curvature,
[118]; law of, [120], [139]; explanation
of, [138], [145]
Greenland, [117]
Gross appliances, survey with, [154]
Growth, idea of, [87]
Group velocity, [213]
, [179], [183], [223]
Halo of reality, [282], [285], [290]
Hamilton, W. R., [181]
Hamiltonian differentiation, [240]
Heaven, [351]
Hegel, [147]
Heisenberg, W., [206], [220], [228], [306]
Heredity, [250]
Here-Now, [41]
Heterodyning, [216]
Hour-glass figures, [48]
House that Jack Built, [262]
Hubble, E. P., [167]
Humour, [322], [335]
Humpty Dumpty, [64]
Huxley, T. H., [173]
Hydrodynamics, [242], [316]
Hydrogen, [3]
Hyperbolic geometry, [136]
Hypersphere, [81], [157]
(square root of -1), [135], [146],
[208]
Identical laws, [237]
Identity replacing causation, [156]
Illusion, [320]
Impossibility and improbability, [75]
Impressionist scheme of physics, [103]
Indeterminacy, principle of, [220],
[306]
Inertia, [124]
Inference, chain of, [270], [298]
Infinity, [80]
Infra-red photography, [173]
Inner Light, [327]
Insight, [89], [91], [268], [277], [311],
[339]
Instants, world-wide, [43]
Integers, [220], [246]
Interval, [37], [261]
Intimate and symbolic knowledge,
[321]
Introspection, [321]
Invariants, [23]
Inventory method, [103], [106], [280],
[341]
Inverse-square law, [29]
Island universes, [165]
Isotropic directed curvature, [144]
Jabberwocky, [291]
Jeans, J. H., [176], [187]
Johnson, Dr., [326]
Jordan, P., [208]
Knowable to mind, [264]
Knowledge, nature of physical, [257],
[304]; complete, [226]
Laplace, [176]
Laputans, [341]
Larmor, J., [7]
Laws of Nature, [237], [244]
Laws of thought, [345]
Lenard, P., [130]
Length, [6], [160]. See [Distance]
Life on other planets, [170]
Life-insurance, [300]
Lift, man in the, [111]
Light, velocity of, [46], [54]; emission
of, [183], [191], [216]
Likeness between relations, [232]
Limitations of physical knowledge,
[257]
Linkage of scientific and familiar
worlds, [xiii], [88], [156], [239], [249]
Location, frames of, [14], [41]
Logos, [338]
Longest track, law of, [125], [135],
[148]
Lorentz, H. A., [7]
Lowell, P., [174]
Luck, rays of, [190]
Lumber (in world building), [235],
[243]
Macroscopic survey, [154], [227], [299],
[304]
Man, [169], [178]
Man-years, [180]
Mars, [172]
Mass, increase with velocity, [39], [50],
[59]
Mathematician, [161], [209], [337], [347]
Matrix, [208]
Matter, [1], [31], [156], [203], [248],
[262]
Maxwell, J. C., [8], [60], [156], [237]
Measures of structure, [234], [268]
Mechanical models, [209]
Mechanics and Geometry, [137]
Mendelian theory, [250]
Mental state, [279]
Metric, [142], [153]
Metrical and non-metrical properties,
[275]
Michelson-Morley experiment, [5], [11]
Microscopic analysis, reaction from,
[103]
Milky Way, [163]
Miller, D. C., [5]
Mind and matter, [259], [268], [278];
selection by mind, [239], [243], [264]
Mind-stuff, [276]
Minkowski, H., [34], [53]
Mirror, distortion by moving, [11]
Models, [198], [209], [344]
Molecular bombardment, [113], [131]
Momentum, [153], [208], [223], [239], [262]
Monomarks, [231]
Moon, origin of, [171]
Morley, E. W., [5]
Motion, law of, [123]
Multiplicationist, [86]
Multiplicity of space and time
frames, [20], [35], [61]
Myself, [42], [53]
Mysticism, defence of, [323]; religious,
[338]
Nautical Almanac, [150]
Nebulae, [165]
Nebular observers, [9], [12]
Neptune, [49]
Neutral stuff, [280]
Neutral wedge, [48]
New quantum theory, [206]
Newton, [111], [122], [201]; quotation
from, [111]
Newtonian scheme, [4], [18], [125]
Non-empty space, [127], [153], [238]
Non-Euclidean geometry, [157]
Nonsense, problem of, [344]
Now-lines, [42], [47], [49], [184]
Nucleus of atom, [3]
Objectivity of “becoming”, [94];
of a picture, [107]
Observer, attributes of, [15], [337]
Odds, [301], [303]
Official scientific attitude, [286], [334]
Operator, [208]
Orbit jumps of electron, [191], [196],
[205], [215], [300], [312]
Organisation, [68], [70], [104]
Ought, [345]
Oxygen and vegetation, [174]
’s and
’s, [208], [223], [327]
Pacific Ocean, [171]
Particle, [202], [211], [218]
Past, relative and absolute, [48]
Pedantry, [340], [342]
Permanence, [241]
Personal aspect of spiritual world,
[337]
Phoenix complex, [85]
Photoelectric effect, [187]
Photon, [190]
Physical time, [40]
Picture and paint, [106]
Picture of gravitation, [115], [138], [157]
Plan, Nature’s, [27]
Planck, M., [185]
Plurality of worlds, [169]
Pointer readings, [251]
Ponderomotive force, [237]
Porosity of matter, [1]
Potential (gravitational), [261]
Potential energy, [213]
Potential gradient, [96]
Pound sterling, relativity of, [26]
Predestination, [293], [303]
Predictability of events, [147], [228],
[300], [307]
Primary law, [66], [75], [98]; insufficiency
of, [107]
Primary scheme of physics, [76], [129],
[295]
Principal curvature, [120], [139]
Principia, [4]
Principle of Correspondence, [196]
Principle of detailed balancing, [80]
Principle of indeterminacy, [220], [306]
Probability, [216], [315]
Proof and plausibility, [337]
Proper-distance, [25]
Proper-time, [37]
Proportion, sense of, [341]
Proton, [3]
Psi (
), [216], [305]
Pure mathematician, [161], [337], [347]
Purpose, [105]
-numbers, [208], [270]
[Quantum], [184]; size of, [200]
Quantum laws, [193]
Quantum numbers, [191], [205]
Quest of the absolute, [26], [122]; of
science, [110], [287]; of reality, [328]
Quotations from
Boswell, [326]
Brooke, Rupert, [317]
Clifford, W. K., [278]
[Dickens], [32]
Einstein, A., [294]
Hegel, [147]
Huxley, T. H., [173]
Kronecker, L., [246]
Lamb, H., [316]
Lewis Carroll, [28], [291], [344]
Milton, [167]
Newton, [111]
Nursery Rhymes, [64], [70], [262]
Omar Khayyam, [64], [293]
O’Shaughnessy, A., [325]
Russell, Bertrand, [160], [278]
Quotations from (cont.)
Shakespeare, [21], [39], [83], [292], [330]
Swift, [341]
Whitehead, A. N., [145]
Radiation pressure, [58]
Random element, [64]; measurement
of, [74]
Reality, meaning of, [282], [326]
Really true, [34]
Rectification of curves, [125]
Rejuvenescence, theories of, [85], [169]
Relata and relations, [230]
Relativity of velocity, [10], [54], [59], [61];
of space-frames, [21]; of magnetic
field, [22]; of distance, [25];
of pound sterling, [26]; of Now
(simultaneity), [46], [61]; of acceleration,
[129]; of standard of
length, [143]
Religion, [194], [281], [288], [322], [324],
[326], [333], [349]
Retrospective symbols, [307], [308]
Revolutions of scientific thought, [4],
[352]
Right frames of space, [18], [20]
Roemer, O., [43]
Rotating masses, break-up of, [176]
Running down of universe, [63], [84]
Russell, B., [160], [277], [278]
Rutherford, E., [2], [327]
Scale (measuring), [12], [18], [24], [134],
[141]
Schrödinger’s theory, [199], [210], [225],
[305]
Scientific and familiar worlds, [xiii],
[247], [324]
Second law of thermodynamics, [74],
[86]
Secondary law, [75], [79], [98]
Seen-now lines, [44], [47]
Selection by mind, [239], [243], [264],
[330]
Self-comparison of space, [145]
Sense-organs, [51], [96], [266], [329]
Shadows, world of, xiv, [109]
Shuffling, [63], [92], [184]
Sidereal universe, [163]
Signals, speed of, [57]
Significances, [108], [329]
Simultaneity, [49], [61]
Singularities, [127]
Sirius, Companion of, [203]
de Sitter, W., [167]
Slithy toves, [291]
Solar system, origin of, [176]
Solar system type of atom, [2], [190]
Sorting, [93]
Space, [14], [16], [51], [81], [137]
Spasmodic moon, [226]
Spatial relations, [50]
Spectral lines, [205], [216]; displacement
of, [121], [166]
Spherical curvature, radius of,
[140]
Spherical space, [82], [166], [289]; radius
of, [167]
Spiral nebulae, [165]
Spiritual world, [281], [288], [324], [349]
Standard metre, [141]
Stars, number of, [163]; double, [175];
evolution of, [176]; white
dwarfs, [203]
States, [197], [301]
Statistical laws, [244]; mind’s interference
with, [313]
Statistics, [201], [300], [303]
Stratification, [47]
Stress, [129], [155], [262]
Structure, [234], [277]
Sub-aether, [211], [219]
Subjective element in physics, [95],
[241]
Substance, [ix], [273], [318]
Success, physical basis of, [346]
Sun, as a star, [164]; age of, [169]
Supernatural, [309], [348]
Survey from within, [145], [321], [330]
Sweepstake theory, [189]
Symbolism in science, xiii, [209], [247],
[269], [324]
Synthetic method of physics, [249]
Temperature, [71]
Temporal relations, [50]
Tensor, [257]
Tensor calculus, [181]
Thermodynamical equilibrium, [77]
Thermodynamics, second law of,
[66], [74], [86]
Thermometer as entropy-clock, [99],
[101]
Thinking machine, [259]
Thought, [258]; laws of, [345]
Time in physics, [36]; time lived
(proper-time), [40]; dual recognition
of, [51], [100]; time’s arrow,
[69]; infinity of, [83]; summary of
conclusions, [101]; time-triangles,
[133]; reality of, [275]
Time-scale in astronomy, [167]
Touch, sense of, [273]
Track, longest, [125], [135], [148]
Trade Union of matter, [126]
Transcendental laws, [245]
Traveller, time lived by, [39], [126],
[135]
Triangles in space and time, [133]
Tug of gravitation, [115], [122]
Undoing, [65]
Unhappening, [94], [108]
Uniformity, basis of, [145]
Unknowable entities, [221], [308]
Utopia, [265]
Values, [243], [330]
Vegetation on Mars, [173]
Velocity, relativity of, [10]; upper
limit to, [56]
Velocity through aether, [30], [32]
Velocity of light, [46], [54]
Venus, [170]
Victorian physicist, ideals of, [209],
[259]
View-point, [92], [283]
Void, [13], [137]
Volition, [310]
Watertight compartments, [194]
Wave-group, [213], [217], [225]
Wave-length, measurement of, [24]
Wave-mechanics, [211]
Wave-theory of matter, [202]
Wavicle, [201]
Wells, H. G., [67]
White dwarfs, [203]
Whitehead, A. N., [145], [249]
Whittaker, E. T., [181]
Winding up of universe, [83]
World building, [230]
World-lines, [253]
Worm, four-dimensional, [42], [87], [92]
Wright, W. H., [172]
Wrong frames of reference, [116]
X (Mr.), [262], [268]

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

On [page 32], the reference to Einstein has been replaced by [Dickens] as shown in the Index. This quote appears in “Martin Chuzzlewit” published in 1843.