Eddington, Arthur

Eddington, Arthur Stanley. Science and the Unseen World. The Macmillan Company, New York. 1929. 

Eddington, Arthur Stanley. The Expanding Universe. At the University Press, Cambridge. 1933. 

Eddington, A. S. (1928) The Nature of the Physical World. Macmillan, New York, 361p. Eddington Arthur (1949) Philosophic der Naturwissenschaft. A. Francke AG Verlag, Bern, 287 P-... 

He wrote this in 1925. Eliot s poem, in turn, inspired others. In 1927, the astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington said that if entropy was always increasing, then we can know the direction in which time moves by looking at the direction in which it increases. The phrase entropy is the arrow of time gripped the popular imagination, although it is rather meaningless. 

The site http //www-groups. dcs. st-and. ac. uk/ history/Mathematicians/Eddington. html contains a brief biography of Sir Arthur Eddington, who first proposed the phrase arrow of time . 

Payne was born in 1900 in Wendover, England, to an upper-class family. Her early education was in botany, physics, and chemistry, but her passion was astronomy. In 1922, she heard a lecture by Harlow Shapley, the director of the Harvard College Observatory. The lecture inspired her to seek admission to Harvard, and with strong recommendations from her mentors in England, including Sir Arthur Eddington, she was admitted and arrived on campus in 1923. Two years later, in 1925, she became the first student, male or female, to earn a Ph.D. from the Harvard College Observatory. 

In Sir Arthur Eddington The Expanding Universe The Universe and the Atom Section IV (p. 113)... 

Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley. New Pathways in Science. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 1959. 

MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY by Arthur Stanley Eddington. Copyright 1954. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, at the... 

A second major break with the past, the special theory of relativity, was the brainchild of Albert Einstein, a twenty-six-year-old patent clerk, in Bern, Switzerland in 1905. No twentieth-century scientist has been regarded with such awe and reverence, by nonscientists and scientists alike, as Albert Einstein. After he generalized the relativity theory in 1915 and after one of its predictions, the bending of light by a massive object, was confirmed by Arthur Eddington s eclipse expedition, Einstein became a world celebrity. 

Page 4. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington From Stars and Atoms, Yale University Press, quoted in A Treasury of Science, Harper Brothers, New York, 1958. 44. 

Whereas Bernal had to rely primarily on mechanically produced random sphere packings in his work on liquid structure, the molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo computer simulation techniques have, during the past three decades, provided researchers with new and powerful experimental tools enabling a much closer look into the structure of the liquid—one has available the trajectory of every atom. Despite this, computer simulation has been used principally to calculate liquid-state correlation functions. This situation, to quote Lumsden and Wilson [6], ... appears to stem in part from a peculiar and fundamental relation that has always existed between experiment and theory in science the importance of experimental data is judged by the theory to which it is applied. As the physicist Arthur Eddington said half seriously, no fact should be accepted as true until it has been confirmed by theory. Unless an attractive theory exists that decrees certain kinds of information to be important, few scientists will set out to acquire the information. Thus, it is only infrequently that computer simulations have been used to characterize liquid structure in ways other than those dictated by the prevailing liquid theory. 

Astrophysicist Arthur Eddington made a remarkable claim ... 

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