INDEX 



359 



Newton, in, 122, 201; quotation 



from, in 

 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 q'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 ; insuffi- 

 ciency of, 107 



Primary scheme of physics, 76, 129, 

 295 



Principal curvature, 120, 139 



Principia, 4 



Principle, 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 {\p), 216, 305 



Pure mathematician, 161, 337, 347 



Purpose, 105 



g-numbers, 208, 270 

 Quantum, 184; size of, 200 

 Quantum laws, 193 

 Quantum numbers, 191, 205 

 Quest of the absolute, 26, 122; of 

 science, no, 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, in 



Nursery Rhymes, 64, 70, 262 



Omar Khayyam, 64, 293 



O'Shaughnessy, A., 325 



Russell, Bertrand, 160, 278 



