BIOLOGY AMONG THE SCIENCES 



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what is En-Ti, energised Time ? We leave those to the ether-physicists 

 to answer for us; but does not ti-En, timed Energy, seem the right 

 square for the Quantum-theory? 



Now leave Ether and, introducing Matter into its square (of 

 space), what further readings arise? 



First eM, energised Matter, is intelligible, since the first stone we 

 have ever thrown, onwards to its physical refinements; and still 

 more when we now clearly distinguish Energy as Potential or 

 Kinetic (as indeed on the preceding Ether paragraph we should 

 have done, but for simplicity's sake at beginning). Next mE, 

 materialised Energy, seems at first sight much the same; but have 

 not recent physicists taken us a step or two further? First, as in 

 so far reviving Newton's corpuscular theory of light; again, as in 

 interpreting the long, fixedly material atom in terms of protons and 

 electrons, units of complemental electric energies which constitute 

 the atoms and thus our material world? And beyond all this, 

 yet congruent with it, note their conception of matter as no longer 

 permanent, but as vanishing into radiant energy, and this even, 

 as main source of the long enduring light and heat of our sun, 

 insufficiently explained by Kelvin's and other previous simpler 

 physical or physico-mechanical theories? Next take tM, timed 

 Matter, a conception surely arising from the discovery of the very 

 varied ranges of time exhibited by the degradative stages of change 

 of Uranium and Radium, as from seconds or less to thousands of 

 years or longer. As suggested in the preceding diagram, tE, timed 

 Energy, includes the Quantum-theory. We can see that tM, timed 

 Matter, may be applied (say) to the stratification of the earth's 

 crust, and that reciprocally we may think of the strata also in terms 

 of mT, materialised Time; since actually conserving for us the 

 succession of past geologic times. Thus there only remains eT, 

 energised Time, to which we find it hard to assign a simply physical 

 conception, other than of potential or kinetic energy at or in given 

 periods. 



Finally, try now Matter, Life, and Time — MLT. 



