James Jeans

If light is emitted as quanta, it seems natural that it should keep a granular structure after emission.

Poincaré and James Jeans had also shown that Planck's law could not be derived if the particles in a light source obeyed classical mechanics, which meant that classical physics, even with Einstein's relativity, could not account for motion on a very small scale.

The photoelectric effect strengthened the case for granular light.

When light or X-rays strike a piece of matter, it emits fast-moving electrons, and the kinetic energy of those electrons rises linearly with frequency of the radiation and is independent of its intensity.

We can be in different places in regard to whether we're conscious or unconscious.

So when we start to look into these questions, what's going on in our physiology? What's going on in our relationships, our health, our capacity to heal? There's a physicist named Sir James Jeans, well-known astronomer, mathematician, and physicist.

And he says, when you look really closely, the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.

Now, here's a man who's describing the implications that he drew from development in physics.

And it's fascinating that there are a number of physicists, Nobel Prize winning physicists actually, One of them is Erwin Schrodinger, and another one, Max Planck.

And there are others too, like for example, Dr. James Jeans, and Arthur Eddington, and Eugene Wigner, and also, let's not forget to mention Dr. John Hagelin.

There are many physicists, a number of them, like I said, won Nobel Prizes.

who say that energy and matter are not fundamental.

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Jeans Dorking, 1930 and now i said let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened behold human beings living in an underground cave which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the cave here they have been from their childhood and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move and can only see before them being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way and you will see if you look a low wall built along the way like the screen which marionette players have in front of them over which they show the puppets i see and do you see i said men passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vessels and statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials which appear over the wall You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners.

Like ourselves, I replied.

And they see only their own shadows, or the other shadows which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave? True, he said.

Plato, Republic, Book 7.

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Section 1 of The Mysterious Universe by James Jeans This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

The Mysterious Universe, Chapter 1.

If such is the case, the extreme heat of one hemisphere and the extreme cold of the other would preclude life.

Even if the suggestion of Sir James Jeans is borne out by fact, each of her days and nights is several times as long as ours on Earth.

These long nights have a temperature of thirteen degrees below zero Fahrenheit, and the long days a correspondingly high temperature." "Yet even so, life might have adapted itself to such conditions," I contended.

"Man exists in equatorial heat and arctic cold." "But not without oxygen," said Napier.

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John has estimated that the amount of oxygen above the cloud envelope that surrounds Venus is less than one-tenth of one percent of the terrestrial amount.

After all, we have to bow to the superior judgment of such men as Sir James Jeans, who says, The evidence, for what it is worth, goes to suggest that Venus, the only planet in the solar system outside Mars and the Earth on which life could possibly exist, possesses no vegetation and no oxygen for higher forms of life to breathe.

Which definitely limits my planetary exploration to Mars." We discussed his plans during the remainder of the day and well into the night, and early the following morning he left for Guadalupe Island in his Sikorsky amphibian.

The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals presents the timeless teaching of Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse.

You do not worship a blind force or give thanks to a mathematical something as Sir James Jeans described God.

Pascal has well said that the God of Christians is not a God who is simply the author of mathematical truths that is believed only by Epicureans and pagans.

Man has been created by a personal God of all love, holiness, justice, truth, righteousness, power, grace, mercy, peace, and an infinite number of other wonders.