Jeans, Sir James : Sir James (Hopwood) Jeans (1877-1946), English mathematician, physicist, & astronomer.
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... suppose Sir James Jeans knows and doesn't wonder. But anyhow E for Evening sounds both irrelevant and poetic. NB: No, Sir, it is not at all irrelevant, though poetic. I swear it is evening. You know they take these pulse and respiration rates Morning and Evening of which M and E are shorthands ... But what is this Jones — knows and doesn't wonder? Sri Aurobindo: Jeans, Jeans, Jeans - not Jones... Jones! Sir James Jeans, sir, who knows all about the temperatures, weights and other family details of the stars, including E. By the way, what do you mean by deceiving me about E in the Hyderabad fever chart? Rene wrote that E is the entry in the "Motions" column; it evidently means enema. Poetry indeed! Sunset colours indeed! Enema, sir! Motions, sir! Compared with that, ling bling is epically... is a chronic difficulty with B's phimosis. Sri Aurobindo: My dear sir, if you clap a word like that on Page 131 an illness, do you think it is easy for the patient to recover? 23 NB: Examined Mulshankar. Most of the trouble is in the abduction of the hip joint. Sri Aurobindo: Abduction of a joint, sir? What's this flagrant immorality? What happens to the joint when it is ...
... AUROBINDO: Jeans, Jeans, Jeans—not Jones! Sir James Jeans, sir, who knows all about the temperatures, weights and other family details of the stars, including E. By the way, what do you mean by deceiving me about E in the Hyderabad fever chart? R wrote that E is the entry in the "Motions" column; it evidently means enema. Poetry indeed! Sunset colours indeed! Enema, sir! Motions, sir! Compared with... No. What has evening to do with it? Evening star? "Twinkle, twinkle, evening star! How I wonder what your temperatures are?" But I suppose Sir James Jeans knows and doesn't wonder. But anyhow E for Evening sounds both irrelevant and poetic. MYSELF: No, Sir, it is not at all irrelevant, though poetic. I swear it is Evening. You know they take these pulse and respiration rates Morning and Evening... myself? SRI AUROBINDO: Dear sir, tell him yourself, tell him yourself. I will pat you on the back in silence from a safe distance. MYSELF: People say I am getting absolutely bald, Sir. Two things I feared—one a big tummy and another a damned baldness. Couldn't be saved from one. If you can't grow new hair, please help to preserve the few I have, Sir. SRI AUROBINDO: What one ...
... single continuous stream of life. As it is with light and electricity, so it may be with life; the phenomena may be individuals carrying on separate existence 1 Physics and Philosophy, by Sir James Jeans. Page 237 in space and time, while in the deeper reality beyond space and time we may all be members of one body. In brief, modern physics is not altogether antagonistic to an objective... It means that the world is objective—it is not the figment of an individual observer; but it is not material either, it is consciousness in vibration. (Note the word "consciousness" is Jeans' own, not mine). Jeans is not alone to have such a revolutionary and unorthodox view. He seems to take courage from Dirac also. Dirac too cannot admit an annihilation of the material world. His proposal to save... translation. This is arguing in a circle, a thorough-going mentalist like Eddington would say. What are facts ? What is life ? Anything more than what the senses and the mind have built up for us? Jeans himself is on the horns of a dilemma.1 Being a scientist, and not primarily a mathematician like Eddington, he cannot very well acquiesce in the liquidation of the material world; nor can he refute ...
... electricity, so it may be with life; the phenomena may be individuals carrying on separate existence 1 ------------------------------------- Physics and Philosophy)', by Sir James Jeans. Page 317 in space and time, while in the deeper reality beyond space and time we may all be members of one body. In brief, modern physics is not altogether antagonistic to an... means that the world is objective – it is not the figment of an individual observer; but it is not material either, it is consciousness in vibration. (Note the word "consciousness" is Jeans' own, not mine). Jeans is not alone to have such a revolutionary and unorthodox view. He seems to take courage from Dirac also. Dirac too cannot admit an annihilation of the material world. His proposal to... translation. This is arguing in a circle, a thorough-going mentalist like Eddington would say. What are facts? What is life? Anything more than what the senses and the mind have built up for us? Jeans himself is on the horns of a dilemma.1 Being a scientist, and not primarily a mathematician like Eddington, he cannot very well acquiesce in the liquidation of the material world; nor can he refute ...
... been held by a number of leaders in the mystical field and this not merely through intellectual activity but also through mystical experience. Your faith in it seems to be strengthened by Sir James Jeans's exposition of modern physics in his most important book so far, Physics and Philosophy. According to you, Berkeley's view of mentalism was a limited and imperfect one, only a beginning... as in philosophy. On page 203 of Physics and Philosophy Jeans says that before mentalism "can be seriously considered some answer must be found to the problem of how objects can continue to exist when they are not being perceived in any human mind". Is it not evident that Berkeley's foundational premiss is negated by Jeans? And once it is negated, what remains of Berkeley? You will... and it may be legitimately doing so, though the legitimacy is not granted by all scientists; nonetheless, Jeans is not justified in his mentalist inferences. Perhaps I am puzzling you by blowing hot and cold. Let me state my view in some detail, also glancing en passant at Jeans's philosophical position. According to Physics and Philosophy, in order to explain what happens in space ...
... M and E are short-hands, and one of which I suppose you will make mad and the other one of the three you have divined! But what is this "Jones—knows and doesn't wonder"? Jeans, Jeans, Jeans—not Jones! Sir James Jeans, sir, who knows all about the temperatures, weights and other family details of the stars, including E. March 26, 1936 Friend C again, with his woeful tale! What... What has evening to do with it? Evening star? "Twinkle, twinkle, evening star! How I wonder what your temperatures are?" But I suppose Sir James Jeans knows and doesn't wonder. But anyhow E for Evening sounds both irrelevant and poetic. March 25, 1936 No, Sir, it is not at all irrelevant, though poetic. I swear it is evening. You know they take these pulse and respiration rates Morning and... his psychic atmosphere, sir. That is what the psychic feels like—to anyone who can contact it, "beautiful, strengthening and refreshing." Give me a beautiful "beating", Sir, will you? Have not had it for a long time! Have given you one or two smacks. No time to make it long. March 19, 1936 Did you say "Old Man of the Sea"? Yes. But why sea, Sir? Any allusion? Well, ...
... observing and analysing and drawing conclusions. It is the intellectual plane. The scientific mind refuses to leave anything unclassed. Has it not classified the Divine also? How does Sir James Jeans or any other scientist know that it was by a "mere accident" that life came into existence or that there is no life anywhere else in the universe or that life elsewhere must either be exactly the... science to support or establish spiritual truth—spiritual truth can exist in itself and needs no such buttressing from outside. Page 391 I think X bases his ideas on the attempt of Jeans, Eddington and other English scientists to thrust metaphysical conclusions into scientific facts; it is necessary that he should appreciate fully the objections of more austerely scientific minds to... Moreover, spiritual seeking has its own accumulated knowledge which does not depend in the least on the theories or discoveries of science in the purely physical sphere. X 's attempt like that of Jeans and others is a reaction against the illegitimate attempts of some scientific minds in the nineteenth century and of many others who took advantage of the march of scientific discovery to discredit ...
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