First published in 1933, this is Sir Oliver Lodge's defence of the luminiferous ether against the new physics of relativity.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Foreword Part I. An Elementary Survey of Physical Existence: 1. The constitution of things around us 2. The progress of physical science 3. Design and purpose in the universe 4. Religion and science 5. The organism and the control 6. The property of inertia 7. Summary of new knowledge 8. Machinery of guidance Part II. Evidence for and Controversies Concerning the Ether: 9. Matter, energy and the ether 10. The ether and the forms of energy 11. Faraday's conception of the ether 12. Modern gibes at the ether 13. The physical aspect of the universe 14. Views of Thomas Young, Newton and Fresnel 15. The ether and relativity 16. Magnetism and the ether, with suggestions for experiment 17. Summary of our present knowledge about the ether Part III. Introduction of Life and Mind: 18. The interaction of the psychical with the physical 19. Life and mechanism 20. A psychical function suggested for the ether of space 21. Ether and the soul Part IV. The Evidence for Survival and its Mechanism: 22. Evidence for and mechanism of survival 23. On the difficulty of proving individual survival 24. On the reasons for the non-recognition of psychical research by the majority of the scientific world 25. On the apparent element of caprice introduced by the spiritistic hypothesis 26. The whole organically considered 27. The spiritistic hypothesis 28. The bearing of the theory upon religions Index.
Foreword Part I. An Elementary Survey of Physical Existence: 1. The constitution of things around us 2. The progress of physical science 3. Design and purpose in the universe 4. Religion and science 5. The organism and the control 6. The property of inertia 7. Summary of new knowledge 8. Machinery of guidance Part II. Evidence for and Controversies Concerning the Ether: 9. Matter, energy and the ether 10. The ether and the forms of energy 11. Faraday's conception of the ether 12. Modern gibes at the ether 13. The physical aspect of the universe 14. Views of Thomas Young, Newton and Fresnel 15. The ether and relativity 16. Magnetism and the ether, with suggestions for experiment 17. Summary of our present knowledge about the ether Part III. Introduction of Life and Mind: 18. The interaction of the psychical with the physical 19. Life and mechanism 20. A psychical function suggested for the ether of space 21. Ether and the soul Part IV. The Evidence for Survival and its Mechanism: 22. Evidence for and mechanism of survival 23. On the difficulty of proving individual survival 24. On the reasons for the non-recognition of psychical research by the majority of the scientific world 25. On the apparent element of caprice introduced by the spiritistic hypothesis 26. The whole organically considered 27. The spiritistic hypothesis 28. The bearing of the theory upon religions Index.
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