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The sale of the Admiralty yacht Enchantress means the removal of a familiar, if somewhat depressing, sight from Portsmouth Harbour;; for the care and maintenance allow-| ance was on the economical side, and she had grown shabby.

SCIENCE BENEFICIAL TO THE RACE

UNEMPLOYMENT CAUSED BY WANT OF BALANCE

NEW PHYSICS AND OLD

(By Sir James H. Jeans, F.R.S.)

Sir James Jeans, the brilliant

In the old days she was famous

What remains is in any case very for her cuisine, and boasted of a physicist, look as the subject of his different from the full-blooded mat- cook who was said to make the presidential address at the annual ter and the forbidding materialism

to make best omelettes aflont

meeting of the British Association, of the Victorian acientist. His ob There was at one time a suggesThe New World Picture of Modern jective and material universe is tion that the smaller Royal yacht|Physics,”

proved to consist of little more Alexandra should take her place,] In his early passages he set up than constructs of our own but the sloop which is to become the tion pictures, or "parables,” the first minds. To this extent, then, mo- new Enchantress will undoubtedlyļe particle-picture-a "materialistic dern physics has moved in the be handier-and cheaper.

picture which caters for those who direction of philosophic Ideallam.. wish to sex their univerae `mapped i

Mind And Matter out as matter existing in space and Mind and matter, if not proved time."

to be of similar nature, are at least In contrast with the $7,000 offer The aciond, wave-picture, found to be ingredients of one

racing describes the universe not as a col single system.

LORDLY EXTRAVAGANCE

to Gordon Richards ią a

(story of the 'fifties.

race.

lection of particles," "bit as a system This brings us at once face to Lord Airlle gave his jockey of waves.

face with the fundamental difficulty Frank Butters, £100 for winning a "The universe is no longer a which confronts all forms of philo

deluge of shot from a battery of sophical idealism. The then Lord Derby heard of it machine-guns, but a stormy sea with and lectured Lord Airlie roundly the sea taken away and only the for "demoralising his jockey by abstract quality of stormineza left- such generosity."

or the grin of the Cheshire cat,

In fact, so abashed was Lord Air-we can think of the grin as un lie, that he left Newmarket post dulatory." haste next morning to escape ther reproof:

fur-

Your Daily Smile!

First Landlady"I manage to keep my boarders longer than you do, anyway."

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Sir James proceeded to a discus-| sion, as given below, of the relations

If the nature we study consista so largely of our own mental con- structs, why do our many minds all construct one and the same. nature? Why, In brief, do we all see the same sun, moon and stars?

I would suggest that physics it

of the new physics and the old, and self may provide a possible although tho benefits which science had con- very confectural clue. The old ferred upon mankind,

particle-picture which lay within

the limits of space and time, broko

HE determinism which appears matter up into a crowd of distinct THE

In the new physics is one of particles, and radiation into a Second Landlady-"Oh, I don't waves, and so, in the last resort, shower, of distinct photons. The them so thin of knowledge. Where we are not newer and more accurate wave-

evidence, if not proof, of a direct- ing mind at the back of all know. You keep phenomena. The contributors that they look longer than they ourselves concerned, we can say that picture, which transcends the

sciences.

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even follows event; where we are framework of space and, time," re- concerned, only that knowledge fol-combines the photons into a single lows knowledge.

beam of light, and the shower of

or not-Can our minds change whated by what Gen. Smuts would is happening in reality, or can they describe as "holism"the", photons we only make it look different to us by are no longer distinct indiciduals changing our angle of vision? We each going its own way, but mem" do not know, and as I do not see bera of a single organisationor" how we can ever find out, my own whole-a beam of light. The amo opinion is that the problem of free-is true, mutatis mutandis, of the will will continue to provida mater- electrons of a parallel-moving show- ial for fruitless discussion until the er. end of eternity.

New Physics Contribution

What Biologists Say

The biologists are beginning to tell us, although not very unanim-

Hong Kong, Monday, Oct. 8, 1934. are acientists of high distinction really are."

in their special fields, and -all

Even Stephen combine to emphasise the idea

Golfer: "You must be the And even this knowledge is one parallel-moving electrons Into Design Or Chance? of intelligent purpose manifest-

ing itself throughout both physt-worst caddle in the world."

only of probabilities and not of continuous electric current and psychical

Caddie: "Hardly. That would certainties; it is at best a smeared Atomicity and division Into in- "There never yet was miracle ca!

be much of a coincidence." picture of the clear-cut reality dividual existences are fundamental wrought by God to convert an their illustrations are of great

which we bellevo to lie beneath.: in the restricted space-time pleture, atheist," wrote Bacon, "because interest. Dr. Aitken, Director of

And just because of this, it is im-but disappear in the wider, and as the light of nature might have the Lick Observatory, Califor-

Teacher: "Had the lamb been possible to decide whether the de-far as we know more truthful, ple- led him to confess a "God." But nia, describes, for instance, the during the nineteenth century marvels of the universe of space obedient and not strayed Away terminism of the wave-picture or ture which, tanacrends space and "the light of nature" led man to as revealed by modern astrono- from the fold, it would not have gluates in the underlying reality time. In this, atomielty is replac deny rather than confess the mical research, Beyond the been devoured by the wolf, would existence of a creative mind and bounds of our own stellar system

shine the independent systems we Pupil. "No, Miss Smith, directive purpose behind the my rind phenomena of the universe call spiral of extra-galactic nebu-would have eater it." The adoption of the Darwinianae, the nearest ones being a mil- theory of evolution as the ex-ion light-years away. Our own planation of the growth and stellar system contains some formation of organisms produced 80,000 million stars, yet. "not- a materialism based upon science withstanding its prodigious size as then known. "Is the universe," and the number and variety of asked Huxley in his vigorous the bodies contained within it, it is a structural unity, an organic] way, "a mud pie made by two

whole blind children, Matter and Force?" And pat came the, an- To-day the term "radiation"

A tea-party, in honour of the ics to this problem is not that it the cells of our bodies. And is it swer, "Yea" The theory of a covers a vast field of phenomena Double Tenth," Chinese Independ- has given a decision on a long-de not conceivable that what is true of specific creation was entirely disradio, heat, light, X-rays, ence Day, will be held by the Chin-bated question, but that it has rethe objects perceived may be trus credited, and the cosmos. gamma rays, and cosmic rays.ese General Chamber of Commerce, opened a door which the old physics also, of the perceiving minds? When ceived in purely mechanistic But again there is the same

had seemed to slam and bolt. We we view ourselves in space and terms: Paley's argument of the evidence of order and design at the Chamber's premises

Wednesday noon.

have an intuitive bellef that we can time we are quite obviously, distinct existence of a supernatural in- Even the new types of flower

choose our lunch from the menu or individuals; when we pass beyond... telligence drawn from the per

called "sports," which, seem to The R.M.S. Empress of Canada abstain from housebreaking or mur-space and time we may perhaps fection of design in nature was appear accidentally, are now ex left Yokohama on Saturday and is der; and that by our own volitionform ingredients of a continuous

plained by discarded, for it was thought.

a re-arrangement due here at 3 p.m. on Friday. She we can

develop our freedom to stream of life. It is only A. step that the old analogy of the uni-brought about in the seed by cos will sail at midnight for Manila choose. We may, of course, be from this to a solution of the pro- verse as a watch put together by mic radiation. "It is rather cart-

wrong. The old physics seemed to blem which would have commended" an omnipotent watch-maker no ous to reflect," muses Professor

The a.. Behas left Singapore on tell us that we were, and that our itself to many philosophers, from longer held good. The universe Crowther, "that much of the glory of our modern gardena may

Saturday and is due here at 8 am imagined freedom was all an - Plato to Berkeley, and is, I think, was not made; rather, like Topsy have its origin in radiation, on Thursday,

sion; the new physics tells us it directly in line with the new world- it "just growed." And there was emitted perhaps before the earth The R.M.S. Empress of Asia. The old physics showed us

may not be no ultimate purpose in this

pleture of modern physics...... growth. As Bertrand Russell existed as a separate planet,

I have left but little time to universe which looked more like discuss affairs of a more concrete a prison than a dwelling-place nature. We meet in a year which The new physics shows usa has to some extent seen science building which is certainly more arraigned before the bar of public spacious, although its interior opinion. doors may be either open or lock-

con

on

The contribution of the new phycusly, that the same may be true of

a

in it we can mould events to our

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puts it in "Mysticism and Logic" which has been travelling on carrying the Interport cricket team, man is the product of causes through space until at least it arrived in Shanghai at 11.80 p.m. which had no prevision of the ends in curling the petals of a on Sunday. She is scheduled to end they were achieving; hisweet. pen or introducing a new arrived at Kobe on Thursday. hopes and fears, his loves and blue into a delphinium" Profes-

Rainfall during the 24 hours beliefs, are but the outcome of sor Lloyd Morgan, in developing

There are many who attribute ed--we cannot say. his theory of emergent evolu ending 10 am. to-day amounted to accidental collocations of atoms. tion from biological data, finds 0.04 inch, according to the Royal But we begin to suspect it may

most of our present national woes.. We live, therefore, in a world of

including unemployment in in chance, and we

in evolution "one great scheme Observatory. This brings the total give us room for such freedom as ourselves are from bottom to top, from first to since January 1 to 36.37 inches, as we have always believed we possess

dustry and the danger of war comparatively meaningless acci- last. What I also believe is that against the normal average 79.69 ed; it seems possible at least that

to the recent rapid advance in dents.

scientific knowledge; this advance throughout nature inches, But during this century a

Even if their most lurid BUS- change has come over scientific

is a revelation of Divine Agency."

desire, and live lives of emotion in picions were justified, it is not clear Dr. MadBride uses the intricate Sentence of three months' hard tellect, and endeavour. It looks as what we could do. For it is ob philosophy. Ita rapid die facts of metabolism as chemical labour was imposed on Tsang though it might form a suitable coveries and amazing progress] have, curiously enough, made proof that no natural process Shing, unemployed, by Mr. Q. A. A.idwelling-place for man, and not a science not more dogmatic, but known to science will explain the Macfadyen at the Central Magis-mere shelter for brutes more humble and more conscious beginning of life. In all fields tracy this morning, for the theft The new physica obviously car of the limitations of the scienti- much remains unknown or un- of a purse, containing 43 cents, ries many philosophical implica fic approach to reality. The re partially answer the questions of

explained Science, then, can only from a newspaper hawker,

tlona, but these are not easy to des cribe In words. They cannot be lations between science and re whence and how. It cannot For 6ghting at No. 328 Queen's summed up in the crisp, snappy: sen ligion, for some time estranged, answer the why or whither of Boad Central, Lo Kf and Laun Fong tences beloved of scientific Journ have grown increasingly har things. Yet it is interesting to were fined $5 each by Mr. Q. A. A. allam, such as that materialism monious. In view of recent de find scientists pointing to the de- Macfadyen at the Central Magis dead, or that matter le velopments in theoretical physics, the old materialism is being dis sign implied in nature as evid tracy this morning. solved into thin air as the con- tion, and the universe the works

ence that evolution is really crea cept of matters as a principle of of a Creative Mind

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