 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1917 - 978 pages
...causing the building to fall. It stands complete and apparently well tested, but without any visible means of support. These supports must obviously exist,...seem to be of the greatest interest and importance, but the reasons for them are as yet not at all understood. It is possible, however, to go a certain... | |
 | Robert Andrews Millikan - 1917 - 304 pages
...causing the building to fall. It stands complete and apparently well tested, but without any visible means of support. These supports must obviously exist,...seem to be of the greatest interest and importance, but the reasons for them are as yet not at all understood. 1 Phys. Rev., II (1913), IO9. , VI. ATTEMPTS... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1918 - 880 pages
...causing the building to fall. It stands complete and apparently well tested, but without any visible means of support. These supports must obviously exist,...seem to be of the greatest interest and importance, but the reasons for them are as yet not at all understood. It. is possible, however, to go a certain... | |
 | Paul Feyerabend - 1987 - 340 pages
...wave theory until the early thirties - and with good reasons. Millikan expresses the general attitude: 'Experiment has outrun theory, or, better, guided...seem to be of the greatest interest and importance, but the reasons for them are as yet not at all understood' (The Electron, Chicago 1917, p. 230). Einstein... | |
 | Roger H. Stuewer - 1989 - 410 pages
...causing the building to fall. It stands complete and apparently well tested, but without any visible means of support. These supports must obviously exist,...outrun theory, or, better, guided by erroneous theory [my italics], it has discovered relationships which seem to be of the greatest interest and importance,... | |
 | J Roche - 1990 - 418 pages
...causing the building to fall. It stands complete and apparently well tested, but without any visible means of support. These supports must obviously exist,...seem to be of the greatest interest and importance, but the reasons for them are as yet not at all understood. 180 In the course of time, however, Millikan's... | |
 | Roy A. Sorensen Associate Professor of Philosophy New York University - 1992 - 334 pages
...causing the building to fall. It stands complete and apparently well tested, but without any visible means of support. These supports must obviously exist,...seem to be of the greatest interest and importance, but the reasons for them are as yet not at all understood.28 Thought experiments are also conducted... | |
 | Giora Hon, Sam S. Rakover - 2001 - 372 pages
...causing the building to fall. It stands complete and apparently well tested, but without any visible means of support. These supports must obviously exist,...seem to be of the greatest interest and importance, but the reasons for them are as yet not at all understood [Millikan 1922], p.230. Here we have the... | |
 | John S. Rigden - 2005 - 206 pages
...causing the building to fall. It stands complete and apparently well tested, but without any visible means of support. These supports must obviously exist,...seem to be of the greatest interest and importance, but the reasons for them are as yet not at all understood.20 j Millikan was wrong in rejecting Einstein's... | |
 | Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1917 - 1090 pages
...causing the building to fall. It stands complete and apparently well tested, but without any visible means of support. These supports must obviously exist....is to find them. Experiment has outrun theory, or, tetter, guided by erroneous theory, it has discovered relationships which seem to be of the greatest... | |
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It stands complete and apparently well tested, but without any visible means of support. These supports must obviously exist, and the most fascinating problem of modern physics is to find them. Experiment has outrun theory, or, better, guided by erroneous... 