Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. 1939 copy. Gift message in front. Some tanning due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The deviations between the common notions and those introduced by modern physics are however negligibly small so far as the experience of ordinary life is concerned. If however we imagine other worlds with the same physical laws as those of our own world but with different numerical values for the physical constants determining the limits of applicability of the old concepts the new and concepts correct of space time and motion at which modern science arrives only after very long and elaborate investigations would become a matter of common knowledge. We may say that even a primitive savage in such a world would be acquainted with the principles of relativity and quantum theory and would use them for his hunting purposes and everyday needs. The hero of the present stories is transferred in his dreams into several worlds of this type where the phenomena usually inaccessible to our ordinary senses are so strongly exaggerated that they could be easily