 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1862 - Liczba stron: 796
...motion 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...Section an application of these general views to the discover}' of probable limits to the periods of time, past and. future, during which the sun can be... | |
 | Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - 1989 - Liczba stron: 906
...dissipation of energy and the finite age of the sun and solar system (ch. 15), but also that it was 'impossible to conceive either the beginning or the...of life without a creating and overruling power'. In the 1862 Macmillan's Magazine version, 'On the age of the sun's heat', Thomson changed the phrase... | |
 | Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - 1989 - Liczba stron: 906
...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.8 This explicit statement may well have emerged from discussions with two other major figures... | |
 | George Levine - 1991 - Liczba stron: 334
...action involving the transformation of potential energy into palpable motion and thence into heat ... 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... | |
 | Crosbie Smith - 1998 - Liczba stron: 424
...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. Thomson's version of the new energy cosmology, then, ruled out both the possibility of reconcentration... | |
 | 1862 - Liczba stron: 600
...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...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... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait William Thomson - 2022 - Liczba stron: 596
...Magazine, March 1862. 48G APPENDIX K. formation of potential energy iuto palpable motion and thenc.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... | |
 | 1865 - Liczba stron: 430
...the necessity of life, and therefore of real vital action, whatever the solar powers maybe:— "It is impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life without an overruling creative power j and therefore no conclusions of dynamical science regarding the future... | |
 | 1928 - Liczba stron: 454
...application of this. But we are reminded of the saying of Lord Kelvin, the famous British physicist: "It is impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life without an overruling creative power. Overpoweringly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie... | |
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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... 
