 | 1862 - Liczba stron: 458
...endless space, of action involving the transformation of potential energy through palpable motion loto heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock and stopping for ever. It |s also impossible to conceive either the begin ning or the continuance of life without... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1862 - Liczba stron: 776
...and exhaustion of potential energy, through the material universe." Tho result of this •would be a state of universal rest and death, if the universe...mechanism, running down like a clock and stopping for ever. It ie also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life without... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1862 - Liczba stron: 804
...death, if the universe were finite and left to obey existing laws. But as no limit is known to tho extent of matter, science points rather to an endless...mechanism, running down like a clock and stopping for ever. It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life without... | |
 | 1862 - Liczba stron: 338
...mechanism, running down like a clockand stopping for ever. It is also impossible to conceive cither the beginning or the continuance of life without a...the discovery of probable limits to the periods of time, past and future, during which the sun can be reckoned on as a source of heat and light. The subject... | |
 | 1862 - Liczba stron: 842
...through the material energy into palpable motion and thence universe.1 The result would inevitably into heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock, i See ProœedmgsB.aE. Feb. 1852 !, or Phil. and 8toppmg for ever. It is also imMag. 1853. first half... | |
 | 1862 - Liczba stron: 556
...through the material energy into palpable motion and thence universe.1 The result would inevitably into heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock, i See Proceedings R SEFebl852 or Phil and stopping for cyer. It is also imTe^2' ГА?Л MATS possible... | |
 | 1865 - Liczba stron: 458
...motion, and exhaustion of potential energy, through the material universe." The result of this would be a state of universal rest and death, if the universe...the discovery of probable limits to the periods of time, past and future, during which the sun can bo reckoned on as a source of heat and light. The subject... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1883 - Liczba stron: 564
...thence into heat, than to a single nnite mechanism, running down like a clock, and stopping for ever. It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life, without an overruling creative power; and, therefore, no conclusions of dynamical science regarding the future... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1889 - Liczba stron: 486
...endless space, of action involving the transformation of potential energy into palpable motion and thence into heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock, and stopping for ever. It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life, without... | |
 | 1893 - Liczba stron: 858
...involving the transformation of potential energy into palpable motion, and thence into heat, rather than to a single finite mechanism running down like a clock and stopping for ever. It is also impassible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life without... | |
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It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life without a creating and overruling power. The author's object was to lay before the Section an application of these general views to the discovery of probable limits to the... 
