Spencer Heath Archive

Item 675

Pencil by Heath on notepad paper.

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     This essay is about things that happen — the kind or kinds of things that do or can happen as the objective part or side of human experience. Such things are called happenings or events. They are also called acts. When taken collectively or inclusively, or when taken in rhythmic repetition or succession, or when taken in some pattern of interrelatedness — they are called action.

 

     Happenings, events, actions, constitute all the objective part or side of human experience — all that impinges on consciousness and is thereby presently and extendedly conceived

 

     Physical science deals with the objective world of events. Its method, primarily, is quantitative. It is primarily both analytical and quantitative. It finds in the composition of events three elementary measurable aspects always present unitedly in the action or event, yet separ­ately distinguishable and separately measurable. These aspects or elements, in the order of their perception in consciousness, are (1) Mass, which exhibits a property called inertia or force by which property it resists motion in any direction or any change in the direction or velocity of its motion; (2) Motion, which exhibits a property called velocity, by which property mass is related to periods of time, and (3) duration or time in which events exhibit a property of order in succession.

     Physical science analyses and resolves actions or events quantitatively into these three measurable aspects or elements. To do this it has established measuring units wherewith to take the dimensions of the three compositional elements and thereby the over-all dimensions of actions or events. These three measuring units of mass, motion and time are called the “fundamental units of physical science.” The units most widely, almost universally, employed are, for mass the gram; for motion the centimeter; and for time the second.

 

     In action or events there is a numerical relatedness subsisting between mass and motion and between motion and time. There is always some certain number of units of mass per each unit of motion. This ratio is called the rate of energy or work in an action or event, and this rate of work multiplied by the number of motion units is the quantity of energy or work in any action or event irrespective of time occupied. There is in every event some certain number of units of motion per each unit of time. This ratio is called the rate of motion or velocity in an action or event, and this rate of motion multiplied by the number of time units is the quantity of motion in any action or event irrespective of time.

 

 

E = mc² = Quantum of action h

 

m  x  c  x  c  =  h

 

     mc  =  h/c

 

c  =  h/mc

 

m  = h/c²