On Physics, Physicists and Philosophy [#265295]

On Physics, Physicists and Philosophy by N Mukunda
English | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 296 Pages | ISBN : N/A | 6.5 MB
The revolution of the earth around the sun has given us a natural unit of time, the year. Since time immemorial, notable events in human affairs have been marked out by the year in which they occurred. Commemorations are customarily held every twenty-five years after the event. Of these, the centenary is very special. If the centenary of an event is celebrated, it signifies two things: on the one hand, a hundred years is a sufficiently long period to claim that the importance of the event has stood the test of time; at the same time, it is a period short enough to be almost within living memory, so that the historical setting of the event can be recalled reliably.