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INDEX 



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 sur- 

 vey, 154 



Curvature of space-time, 119, 127, 

 157; coefficients of, 120, 155 



Cyclic method of physics, 260, 277, 



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; inscru- 

 table nature of, 81; macroscop- 

 ic 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, in, 185, 203 



Einstein's law of gravitation, 120, 

 J 39» I 5 I > 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Engineer, superseded by mathe- 

 matician, 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 



