He considers five different concepts from the standard world
view of classical physics to a view which closely resembles the cosmology put forth in Process and Reality.
Concept I is the «standard» world
view of classical physics.
Not exact matches
Whitehead, another mathematician - physicist - philosopher, had a similar
view Thus our theological scheme is no longer as seriously at odds with science or the philosophy
of science as it was in the days
of classical or Newtonian
physics.
Furthermore, the
classical physics of Galileo, Descartes and Newton, basing itself on this common sense
view of matter, portrays nature as made up
of hard, impermeable material particles or mechanisms obeying immutable physical laws.