The Unseen Universe, Or Physical Speculations on a Future State

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Cosimo, Inc., 2007 M04 1 - 288 páginas
Originally published anonymously, The Unseen Universe is a bold attempt to bring scientific and religious readers together in harmony. Themselves both accomplished scientists, Steward and Tait hoped to calm those Christians who had come to see science as heretical and show scientists how they could reconcile the advances in their field with a belief in God and the immortality of the soul. In this quest, they ask readers to consider the principle of Continuity, in which all the mechanics in nature have a cause that is also found in nature. And in following this chain of continuity backward, they inevitably come upon a prime mover, for if the universe is not eternal, then it must have been started, and this is where science and religion can share the same ground. Readers of science and philosophy will be called to ponder the nature of the universe for themselves. Scottish physicist BALFOUR STEWART (1828-1887) studied and wrote about the nature of radiation, meteorology, and magnetism. Scottish physicist PETER GUTHRIE TAIT (1831-1901) is most famous for writing, with Lord Kelvin, the groundbreaking physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867).
 

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INTRODUCTION
1
Belief of the Eastern Aryansma
18
INTRODUCTORY SKETCH
23
Objections to the proposed theory of a future state replied to
28
His task
29
Reformation of Buddha
30
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General opinion regarding the person of Christ
39
Relative quantity of matter associated with energy 137138
137
The Ethereal medium
143
Universal gravitation
144
Remarks on the speculations of this chapter 149150
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Chemical development
155
Life development
165
Position of life in the present physical universe 177
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Delicacy of construction derived from the suns rays 183
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Theological
52
Spread of the Christian religion
54
Points of similarity between this school and Christians
60
Modern spiritualists
67
Materialistic position described
73
Essential requisites for continued existence
78
Application of this principle to Christian miracles
90
Use and Abuse of the Term Force 97
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CHAPTER III
99
Transformability of energy constitutes its use 104
104
Degradation of energy 爨 114
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CHAPTER IV
129
The same idea pervades the Old Testament 189
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Explanation of this 195
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Memory of the universe 196197
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Quasiscientific
210
Christian theory of the development of the universe 221227
221
Meaning of conservation
232
Life comes from the Unseen Universe
233
Meteoric hypothesis implies Discontinuity
242
Christ
248
XXV
251
ceptions of the Divine essence 253
253
Plato on the markings of the soul 259
259
The scientific conclusion is directly against the opponents
271
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