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), hi, 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 (3) 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, 34i 

 Commonsense knowledge, 16 



Companion of Sirius, 203 



Comparability of relations, 232 



Compensation of errors, 12 



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