 If we could view the universe as a candle not lit, then it is perhaps conceivable to regard it as having been always in existence ; but if we regard it rather as a candle that has been lit, we become absolutely certain that it cannot have been burning...  The London Quarterly Review - Seite 246herausgegeben von - 1874Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Balfour Stewart - 1873 - 248 Seiten
...process of degradation cannot be eternal. If we could view the universe as a candle not lit, then it is perhaps conceivable to regard it as having been always...come when it will cease to burn. We are led to look to a beginning in which the particles of matter were in a diffuse chaotic state, but endowed with the... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - 1873 - 214 Seiten
...degradation ' ^ * J cannot be eternal. If we could view the universe as a J. , ( A candle not lit, then it is perhaps conceivable to regard it as having been always...it will cease to burn. -^ •• We are led to look to a beginning in which the particles ' •' •. ,? of matter were in a diffuse chaotic state, but... | |
 | 1874 - 898 Seiten
...remarks, summing up its results : — " If we could view the Universe as a candle not lit, then it is, perhaps, conceivable to regard it as having been always...when it •will cease to burn. We are led to look to a beginning when the particles of matter were in a diffuse chaotic state, but endowed with the power... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1874 - 596 Seiten
...fit abode for living beings." . . . . " If we could view the universe as a candle not lit, then it is perhaps conceivable to regard it as having been always...come when it will cease to burn. We are led to look to a beginning, in which the particles of matter were in a diffuse chaotic state, but endowed with... | |
 | 1874 - 602 Seiten
...process of degradation cannot be eternal. If we could view the universe as a candle not lit, then it is perhaps conceivable to regard it as having been always...come when it will cease to burn. We are led to look to a beginning in which the particles of matter were in a diffused chaotic state, but endowed with... | |
 | 1874 - 608 Seiten
...fit abode for living beings." . . . . " If we could view the universe as a candle not lit, then it is perhaps conceivable to regard it as having been always...come when it will cease to burn. We are led to look to a beginning, in which the particles of matter were in a diffuse chaotic state, but endowed with... | |
 | 1875 - 360 Seiten
...on a dissipation of energy. ft we would view, he says, the Universe as a candle not lit, then it is, perhaps, conceivable to regard it as having been always...come when it will cease to burn. We are led to look to a beginning when the particles of matter were in a diffuse chaotic state, but endowed with the power... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - 1876 - 266 Seiten
...process of degradation cannot be eternal. If we could view the universe as a candle not lit, then it is perhaps conceivable to regard it as having been always...come when it will cease to burn. We are led to look to a beginning in which the particles of matter were in a diffuse chaotic state, but endowed with the... | |
 | Thomas Ragg - 1877 - 468 Seiten
...process of degradation cannot be eternal. If we could view 'the universe as a CANDLE NOT LIT, then it is perhaps conceivable to regard it as having been always in existence ; but if we regard it as a candle that has been lit we become absolutely certain that it cannot have been burning from eternity,... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1878 - 564 Seiten
...a beginning, and must have an end ; for a process of degradation cannot be eternal. If we regard it as a candle that has been lit, we become absolutely...that a time will come when it will cease to burn." Sir W. Thomson writes thus in his joint treatise, with Professor Tait, on Natural Philosophy. " It... | |
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