The mysterious universe / by Sir James Jeans.

  • Jeans, James, 1877-1946.
Date:
1930
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Credit: The mysterious universe / by Sir James Jeans. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Entropy, 144 Ether, definition of, 79, 104 existence of, 91, 96, 97, 104 nature of, 81, 89, 92, 95, 103, 105 Exclusion-principle, 136 Expanding universe, 62 ff., 136 Faraday, M., 52, 54, 81, 103 Finiteness of space, 60, 61, 112, 135, 143 Fitzgerald, G. F., 86 Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction, 86, 87, 95, 96 Force, physical nature of, 55, 56, 60, 92, 112 Free-will, 16, 29 Fresnel, A., 39 Galileo, 16, 127 Gas, properties of a, 17 Geometrical interpretation of force, 112, 113 Germer, L. H., 42 Gravitation, interpretation of, 16, 17, 19, 60, 93, 94, Ill law of, 16, 94, 111 ff. Heat-death, 13, 144 Heisenberg, W., 25, 26, 123, 124, 126, 142 Helmholtz, H. von, 17 Highly penetrating radiation, 22, 71, 72 Hubble, E., 64 Hull, G. F., 55 Humason, 64 Huj'ghens, C., 81 Huxley, T. II., 4 Imaginary numbers, 110, 130 Indeterminacy in nature, 25, 28, 37, 123, 125 Indeterminacy principle of Heisenberg, 25, 123 Interference bands, 33 Joule, J. P., 49 Kelvin, Lord (Sir W. Thomson) 17 Kikuchi, S., 43 Laue, M., 38 Lavoisier, A. L., 48 Laws of nature, 45, 118, 140 Lebedew, P., 55 Leibnitz, G. W., 121 Lemaitre, G., 62, 63 Life, beginnings of, 2, 148 end of, 11, 12 hostility of universe to, 3,12, 13, 148, 149 Light, aberration of, 81 diffraction of, 34, 42 nature of, 31 ff., 36, 77, 142 Light-quanta, 36,37,70,75,142 Lines of force, 54 Lives of stars, length of, 59, 60, 65, 68 Locke, J., 131 Lodge, Sir O., 104 Lorentz, H. A., 86, 87 Lucretius, 46, 47 Luminiferous ether, 81 ff., 104, 120, 142 McLennan, J. C., 22 Magnetism, 9 Mass, conservation of, 48, 49, 51, 53 definition of, 47 of energy (energy-mass), 53 rest-, 52, 53, 69 Mathematical interpretation of nature, 127, 131, 133, 141, 142, 145, 146