Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1884

Pencil notes on a 3X5 card inserted at page 503 of Harlow Shapley et al, A Treasury of Science.

     The limitless cosmos is composed basically of mass, motion and time — the second dependent on the first as the third (time) depends on the second. These three are ultimately “granular,” having fundamental units only in whole numbers of which will any one unite with like (whole) numbers of the other two to form the particular happenings or events which, taken universally, constitute the cosmos of ACTION in which Max Planck’s unit of action is that event of least over-all magnitude — though of variant composition — to which the finite human sensory is capable to react.