Spencer Heath Archives

Item 225

Penned remarks on lined notepad paper

About 1958?

     Let us imagine a particle, such as a nucleon, capable of having either position or velocity (but not both) with respect to its environment and of disintegration into radiant energy. For simplicity, assume that it is at rest (without motion) in reference to its environment. From the fact that it disintegrates, from whatever cause, internal or external, we may infer that it is composite. Upon examina­tion, it gives three and only three sense reactions which are measurable and from which we attribute to it the properties of mass, motion (same as environment, in this case) and time

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