1929. The course of Gifford Lectures that Eddington delivered in
the University of Edinburgh in January to March 1927. It treats of
the philosophical outcome of the great changes of scientific
thought which have recently come about. The theory of relativity
and the quantum theory have led to strange new conceptions of the
physical world; the progress of the principles of thermodynamics
has wrought more gradual but no less profound change. The first
eleven chapters are for the most part occupied with the new
physical theories, with the reasons which have led to their
adoption, and especially with the conceptions which seem to
underlie them. The aim is to make clear the scientific view of the
world as it stands at the present day, and, where it is incomplete,
to judge the direction in which modern ideas appear to be tending.
In the last four chapters I consider the position which this
scientific view should occupy in relation to the wider aspects of
human experience, including religion. Contents: The Downfall of
Classical Physics; Relativity; Time; The Running-Down of the
Universe; Becoming; Gravitation-the Law; Gravitation-the
Explanation; Man's Place in the Universe; The Quantum Theory; The
New Quantum Theory; World Building; Pointer Readings; Reality;
Causation; and Science and Mysticism.
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