In The Most Modern Theories Of Physics

In The World Of Physics We Watch A Shadowgraph Performance Of The Drama Of Familiar Life. The Shadow Of My Elbow Rests On The Shadow Table As The Shadow Ink Flows Over The Shadow Paper. It Is All Symbolic, And As A Symbol The Physicist Leaves It. ... The Frank Realisation That Physical Science Is Concerned With A World Of Shadows Is One Of The Most Significant Of Recent Advances.

But It Is Necessary To Insist More Strongly Than Usual That What I Am Putting Before You Is A Model-the Bohr Model Atom-because Later I Shall Take You To A Profounder Level Of Representation In Which The Electron Instead Of Being Confined To A Particular Locality Is Distributed In A Sort Of Probability Haze All Over The Atom.

We Are Bits Of Stellar Matter That Got Cold By Accident, Bits Of A Star Gone Wrong.

Whether In The Intellectual Pursuits Of Science Or In The Mystical Pursuits Of The Spirit, The Light Beckons Ahead, And The Purpose Surging In Our Nature Responds.

It Is Reasonable To Hope That In The Not Too Distant Future We Shall Be Competent To Understand So Simple A Thing As A Star.