Sentences with phrase «modem physics»

This, of course, assumes that what we see, or what is observable visually, should wholly determine what real space is — whereas even a casual glance at the development of modem physics shows that much of reality stubbornly defies visualization.

Theoretical entities are often only very indirectly related to observations — especially in modem physics.

In particular, Mays interprets Process and Reality in light of two central notions: «the postulational method of modern logic with its emphasis on complex relational systems, and the field theory of modem physics with its emphasis on the historicity of physical systems» (PW 20/14).

This understanding of God's relationship to the world has been enormously influential in contemporary philosophy of religion, especially since the publication in 1948 of The Divine Relativity from which the above quotation was taken.2 Although the consistency of divine relativity with the understanding of simultaneity in modem physics is a recognized point of contention, the question I wish to ask is whether the theory of divine relativity is metaphysically possible.3 How could it be possible for God to know and feel the different experiences of radically distinct subjects with equal vividness all at the same time?

It is the clear anticipation of Newton's First Law on which rest his Second and Third Laws, and ultimately all that marvelous set of laws that constitute classical and modem physics.

In other words, a metaphysics derived from a description of human emotional states is compatible with modem physics.

Not exact matches

Or, as he put it with his penchant for startling comparisons: «A priest from Thebes would probably have felt more at home at the Council of Trent two thousand years after Thebes had vanished than Sir Isaac Newton at a modem undergraduate physics society.»

[1] Werner HEISENBERG, Physics and philosophy: the revolution in modem science, New York, Harper & Row, 1958, ch.