 | George Henry Lewes - Knowledge, Theory of - 1875 - 500 pages
...pressure, and causes a decrease of attraction. I therefore ask, with Professor Clerk Maxwell, " If something is transmitted from one particle to another...the one particle and before it has reached the other 1 If this something is the potential energy of the two particles, how are we to conceive this energy... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - Religion and science - 1876 - 254 pages
...there must be a medium by which the pressure is exerted." " If something," says Prof. Clerk Maxwell,2 " is transmitted from one particle to another at a distance,...something is the potential energy of the two particles, how are we to conceive this energy as existing in a point of space coinciding neither with the one... | |
 | Raymond St. James Perrin - 1885 - 604 pages
...pressure, and causes a decrease of attraction. I therefore ask, with Professor Clerk Maxwell : " If something is transmitted from one particle to another...something is the potential energy of the two particles, how are we to conceive this energy as existing in a point of space coinciding neither with the one... | |
 | Raymond St. James Perrin - Religion - 1885 - 602 pages
...pressure, and causes a decrease of attraction. I therefore ask, with Professor Clerk Maxwell : " If something is transmitted from one particle to another...something is the potential energy of the two particles, how are we to conceive this energy as existing in a point of space coinciding neither with the one... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - Religion and science - 1885 - 220 pages
...and before it has reached the other? If this something is the potential energy of the two particles, how are we to conceive this energy as existing in...space coinciding neither with the one particle nor the other ? In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - Religion and science - 1889 - 252 pages
...there must be a medium by which the pressure is exerted." " If something," says Prof. Clerk Maxwell,' " is transmitted from one particle to another at a distance,...something is the potential energy of the two particles, how are we to conceive this energy, as existing in a point of space coinciding neither with the one... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook - Science - 1896 - 234 pages
...is transmitted from one particle to another at a distance, what is its condition after it has left one particle and before it has reached the other ?...coinciding neither with the one particle nor with the other 1 In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium... | |
 | Roger H. Stuewer - History - 1989 - 410 pages
...dispositional sense, in order to remain consistent with the conservation of energy. As Maxwell put it, "If something is transmitted from one particle to another...one particle and before it has reached the other?" His answer was, it becomes the energy of the intervening medium, that is, the field. REPLY BY HOWARD... | |
 | James Robert Brown - Philosophy - 1994 - 222 pages
...space. . . . But in all of these [action at a distance] theories the question naturally occurs:- If something is transmitted from one particle to another...one particle and before it has reached the other? (1891, §866) In another place Maxwell was quite emphatic: In speaking of the energy of the field,... | |
 | Sahotra Sarkar - Philosophy - 1996 - 434 pages
...space from particle to particle: But in alt of these theories the question naturally occurs: — If something is transmitted from one particle to another...one particle and before it has reached the other? ... In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium... | |
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Principle!, 2nd edition. something is transmitted from one particle to another at a distance, what is its condition after it has left the one particle and before it has reached the other... 