Spencer Heath Archive

Item 266

Pencil notes inserted in Hans Reichenbach, Atom and Cosmos

Spring 1961?

 

 

 

 

 

     The quantum units of action are definitely known finite interacting events less than which do not enter into objective human experience — least building blocks of the physical world — but “large enough to be perceivable by a human consciousness.”

 

     Taken objectively and physically, the least units in the calculus are the definitely known finite interacting units called quanta or quantum units of action, not infinitesimal but

     The calculus principle operating in economics deals with the least unit of value that is treated as of any account in the accountancy of contractual exchange.

    All “equilibrium” so-called is statistical only — the operational result (or resultant) of very large numbers of small motions or events