The nature of the physical world
by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
393 pages•about 8 h 15 min to read•Public domain
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About this book
Written for readers curious about physics and its philosophical limits, Eddington’s book asks what scientific theory can tell us about the physical world. A person, he argues, is better understood as lasting through time than as the single instant each observer sees, and those instant versions can differ. When discussing gravity, he likens its law to an accomplice, since light bends with space-time and can make celestial motions appear to confirm the law. His account of scientific symbols rejects the assumption that nature must consist of tiny versions of familiar objects, while insisting that mathematical models must connect back to conscious experience.
