Archimedes; or, the future of physics — John Shaqi
Archimedes; or, the future of physicsWhyte, Lancelot Law
Philosophy
Archimedes; or, the future of physics
Whyte, Lancelot Law
Physics
[5] The idea that time may be an active factor in causation has the
mathematical significance that ‘t’ (for the system in question) must
appear explicitly in the formulation of the law, and not merely as the
square of a time-differential found convenient for the correlation of
a standard clock with a reversible process which is being observed.
A law whose mathematical formulation involves ‘t’ measured from some
moment in the history of the system, gives an entirely new meaning
to ‘t’, though one consistent with the properties of the reversible
Newtonian differential ‘dt’. Such a law may claim to express the fact
of historic, irreversible, duration, a feature in nature which is
neglected by laws involving only ‘dt’ squared.
[6] Einstein, _Annalen der Physik_, vol. 49, pp. 776-7, 1916.
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