Penciling and partially transcribed on typewriter on how the Planckian generalization has changed our understanding of objective reality. Spencer MacCallum showed this to Alvin Lowi on 8/10/2016, asking if it might be publishable, and Lowi replied, “I found most of this item to be familiar, meaning I must have encountered it before back when we were originally trying to catalog. In any case, the points are covered pretty well in our recent paper without having the burden of translating and correcting inconsistent usages like action vs. work, energy, etc.” To which MacCallum replied, “I liked the closing imagery about time: ‘On the dull basis of mass alone was a structure of gross materialism. On the naked concept of line, of motion without content was a system of abstract geometry, form without either substance or motion, and time was a mystic entity that swallowed all things into oblivion.’" Pencilings by Heath on three notepad pages, not transcribed but photocopied, are included here. A penciled page from Item 1707 was found with this material, suggesting that this might have been written around 1953.

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