Book science and music pdf free download and read online pdf/epub by Sir James H. Jeans isbn: 746 The Mysterious Universe is a science book by the British astrophysicist Sir James Jeans. It is an expanded version of the Rede Lecture delivered at the University of Cambridge in 1. TheMysteriousUniverse is a popular science book by the British astrophysicist SirJamesJeans, first published in 1930 by the Cambridge University Press. In the United States, it was published by Macmillan.
The present book contains an expansion of the Rede Lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge in November 1930. There is a widespread conviction that the new teachings of astronomy and physical science are destined to produce an immense change on our outlook on the universe as a whole, and on our views as to the significance of human life.
The question at issue is ultimately one for philosophic discussion, but before the philosophers have a right to speak, science ought first to be asked to tell all she can as to ascertained facts and provisional hypotheses. Then, and then only, may discussion legitimately pass into the realms of philosophy.
— James Jeans in, In an interview published in (London), when asked the question 'Do you believe that life on this planet is the result of some sort of accident, or do you believe that it is a part of some great scheme?' , he replied: I incline to the idealistic theory that consciousness is fundamental, and that the material universe is derivative from consciousness, not consciousness from the material universe. In general the universe seems to me to be nearer to a great thought than to a great machine. It may well be, it seems to me, that each individual consciousness ought to be compared to a brain-cell in a universal mind.
What remains is in any case very different from the full-blooded matter and the forbidding of the Victorian scientist. His objective and material universe is proved to consist of little more than constructs of our own minds.
To this extent, then, modern physics has moved in the direction of philosophic idealism. Mind and matter, if not proved to be of similar nature, are at least found to be ingredients of one single system. There is no longer room for the kind of which has haunted philosophy since the days of. — James Jeans, addressing the in 1934, recorded in Physics and Philosophy, Finite picture whose dimensions are a certain amount of space and a certain amount of time; the protons and electrons are the streaks of paint which define the picture against its space-time background. Traveling as far back in time as we can, brings us not to the creation of the picture, but to its edge; the creation of the picture lies as much outside the picture as the artist is outside his canvas.
On this view, discussing the creation of the universe in terms of time and space is like trying to discover the artist and the action of painting, by going to the edge of the canvas. This brings us very near to those philosophical systems which regard the universe as a thought in the mind of its Creator, thereby reducing all discussion of material creation to futility. — James Jeans in, Awards and honours. in May, 1906. to in 1917. of the in 1919. of the 1921–1924.
He was in 1928. of the in 1931. In 1933 Hopwood-Jeans was invited to deliver the on Through Space and Time. Mukerjee Medal of the in 1937. President of the 25th session of the in 1938. Calcutta Medal of the in 1938. Member of the in 1939.
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(2004). Image Books/Doubleday. We can hardly wonder, in the circumstances, that agnostics such as Sir James Jeans and Marcel Boll, and even convinced believers like Guardini, have uttered expressions ol amazement (tinged with heroic pessimism or triumphant detachment) at the apparent insignificance of the phenomenon of Life in terms of the cosmos— a little mold on a grain of dust. (2013) 1952. Cambridge University Press. External links.