INDEX 



357 



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; real- 

 ity 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, in, 

 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; explana- 

 tion of, 138, 145 



Greenland, 117 



Gross appliances, survey with, 154 



Growth, idea of, 87 



Group velocity, 213 



h, 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 



i (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 



