Bøger af Arthur Eddington

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"Every one now admits that the Ptolemaic system, which regarded the earth as the centre of all things, belongs to the dark ages. But to our dismay we have discovered that the same geocentric outlook still permeates modern physics through and through, unsuspected until recently. It has been left to Einstein to carry forward the revolution begun by Copernicus - to free our conception of nature from the terrestrial bias imported into it by the limitations of our earthbound experience. To achieve a more neutral point of view we have to imagine a visit to some other heavenly body. That is a theme which has attracted the popular novelist, and we often smile at his mistakes when sooner or later he forgets where he is supposed to be and endows his voyagers with some purely terrestrial appanage impossible on the star they are visiting. But scientific men, who have not the novelist's licence, have made the same blunder..."

The equations of general relativity include a constant lambda in their solution. If lambda is non-zero and positive, this represents the existence of a phenomenon of cosmical repulsion. In this book Eddington discussed the implications of this models of the universe.

Originally published in 1928, this book contains substance of the Gifford Lectures which were delivered by Sir Arthur Eddington at the University of Edinburgh in 1927. The text discusses the philosophical outcome of fundamental changes in scientific thought related to areas such as the theory of relativity, quantum theory and thermodynamics.

Originally published in 1935, this book contains the substance of the Messenger Lectures which were delivered by Sir Arthur Eddington at Cornell University in April and May 1934. The text discusses a variety of advances in the physical sciences and scientific thought in general.

Originally published in 1939, this book contains the substance of the course of lectures delivered by Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) as Tarner Lecturer of Trinity College, Cambridge in the Easter term of 1938. The text discusses the principles of philosophical thought associated with advances in physical science.