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| ZP OWER C ORPORATION PAGE OF 352 Z ERO P OINT E NERGY effect of establishing the objectivity of scientific knowledge in anew and a profounder way than was possible in the post-Newtonian, and certainly, the post-Kantian, outlook upon the universe. (3) Physical science as it stemmed from Clerk Maxwell's revolutionary ideas was left with a serious, and perhaps an ultimately irresolvable problem, of which, as we have seen, he himself seems to have been aware. This relates to the fact that although his equations expressed the mathematical properties of the energy intrinsic to the continuous field of space and time, he was unable to reconcile in a satisfactory manner, the ways in which the two basic forms of this energy, in respect of position and motion, manifest themselves. Thus, as Einstein has expressed it, while Clerk Maxwell's partial differential equations appeared as the natural expression of the primary realities of physics, in a particular area of theoretical physics, the continuous field appeared side by side with the material point as the representative of physical reality. This dualism has to this day not disappeared, disturbing as it must evidently be to any systematic mind. Clerk Maxwell's problem remains with us in the difficulties that have emerged in the reconciliation of relativity theory and quantum theory, not to mention a unified field theory which will take in thermodynamics and gravity theory as well - although someway toward the solution may well lie along the line of thought which both Michael Faraday and Clerk Maxwell entertained, that the relations between particles in afield of force must bethought of as constituting, in part at least, what particles actually are. However, it is doubtful whether in the nature of the case the duality between particle and field can ever be completely removed anymore than the distinction between the temporal and the spatial aspects of space-time. Download 0.97 Mb. Share with your friends:
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