All the theories set out in the preceding pages rest on a long series of experiments. The scientific or philosophical doctrine which has not experience for its basis is deprived of interest and constitutes only a literary dissertation without meaning. In the following pages I can only give a brief summary of the experiments published…
Read MoreBook VI. The World of Ponderability — Birth, Evolution and End of Matter Chapter I: The Constitution of Matter — The Forces Which Uphold Material edifices (1) Former Ideas on the Structure of Atoms Before setting forth the current ideas relating to the constitution of matter, I will briefly refer to those on which science…
Read MoreChapter I: Properties of the Substances Intermediate Between Matter and the Ether All the substances we have studied in the shape of products of the dissociation of matter have presented characteristics visibly intermediate between those of matter and those of the ether. Sometimes they possess material qualities, as the emanations from thorium and radium, which…
Read MoreBook IV. The Dematerialization of Matter Chapter I: The Various Interpretations of the Experiments which Reveal the Dissociation of matter (1) The First Interpretation The ether and matter form the two extreme limits of the series of things. Between these limits, far as they are from each other, there exist intermediate elements, of which the…
Read MoreBook III. The World of the Imponderable Chapter I: The Classic Separation Between the Ponderable and the Imponderable — Does There Exist a World Intermediate Between Matter and the Ether? Science formerly divided the various phenomena of nature into two sharply separated classes, with on apparent break between them. These distinctions have existed throughout all…
Read MoreBook II. Intra-Atomic Energy And The Forces Derived Therefrom Chapter I: Intra-Atomic Energy — Its Magnitude (1) The Existence of Intra-Atomic Energy I have given the name of Intra-atomic Energy to the new force, differing entirely from those hitherto observed, which is produced by the dissociation of matter — that is to say, by the…
Read MoreBook I. The New Ideas On Matter Chapter I: The Theory of Intra-Atomic Energy and of the Passing Away of Matter 1. The New Ideas on the Dissociation of Matter The dogma of the indestructibility of matter is one of the very few which modern has received from ancient science without alteration. From the great…
Read MoreThe Evolution of Matter by Dr. Gustave Le BON Translated by F. Legge | The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd. (London) | Ch. Scribner’s Sons (New York) | 1909 Table of Contents Translator’s Preface Papers by the author published in the “Revue Scientifique” Introduction Book I. The New Ideas On Matter Chapter I -The Theory…
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