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These papers are all manuscripts in Eddington’s hand, with the exception of B3/17, which is typed, and B3/12, which is a carbon copy of a typescript.

§ 1. Relation between quantum theory and relativity theory.
§ 2. The standard of length.
§ 3. The two ways of representing energy.
§ 4. Representation of energy by curvature.
§ 5. Representation of energy by waves.
§ 6. Wave analysis of the uranoid.
§ 7. The specified particles.
§ 8. Determination of m/m0.
§ 9. Degeneracy pressure.
§ 10. The cosmical constants.
§ 11. The relation E/V=3P.
§ 12. The time-periodicity of wave functions.
§ 13. Nuclear physics.

(This appears to be the English original of a paper given by Eddington at Warsaw in 1938 and printed as ‘Applications cosmologiques de la théorie des quanta’ in Les nouvelles théories de la physique (Institut International de Coopération Intellectuelle, Paris, 1939).)

§ 1∙1. The conditions of observability.
§ 1∙2[a]. The Gaussian distribution.
§ 1∙3. Systems of description.
§ 1∙4. Relative distribution functions.
§ 1∙5. Application to wave functions.
§ 1∙6[a]. Uranoids.
§ 1∙7. Curvature of space.
§ 1∙8. Proper mass.
§ 1∙9[a]. Object-fields.
§ 1∙9[b]. Four-dimensional theory.
§ 1∙6[b]. Uranoids.
§ 1∙2[b]. The centroid as physical origin.

(The chapter title was altered from ‘The Uncertainty of the Reference Frame’. § 1∙9[b] is marked ‘rewrite under the heading “Stabilising relations”’.)

§ 5∙1. Electric charge.
§ 5∙2. The electrical stabilisation.
§ 5∙3. The time coordinate.
§ 5∙4. Quadratic and linear energy.
§ 5∙5. The Coulomb energy.
§ 5∙6. Pairing.
§ 5∙7[a]. [Untitled.]
§ 5∙7[b]. The electromagnetic potential.

§ 1∙9 [continued].
Part of an unidentified chapter.
§ 1∙9. Individual and statistical particles.
§ 1∙8. Electric charge.
Rough calculations.

§ 19. Object-fields.
§ 20. The rigid-field convention.
§ 21. The rigid field in scale-free physics.
§ 22. Partition of the energy tensor.
§ 23. The inversion of energy.
§ 24. Rigid coordinates.
§ 25. Standard particles and vector particles.
§ 26. Transition particles.
§ 27. Protons and electrons.
§ 28. The mass m0.

(Formerly two chapters. The title was altered from ‘Fields and Particles’; ‘Chapter IV. Multiplicity Factors.’ has been struck through before § 25.)

§ 11. The Bernoulli fluctuation.
§ 12. The standard of length.
§ 13. Non-uniform curvature of space.
§ 14. The extraneous standard.
§ 15. Scale-free physics.
§ 16. Pseudo-discrete wave functions.
§ 17. Stabilised characteristics.
§ 18. Stabilisation of tensors.

§ 1. The conditions of observability.
§ 2. Correlation.
§ 3. The importance of systematic description.
§ 4. The uncertainty of the origin.
§ 5. Application to wave functions.
§ 6. Three-dimensional distributions.
§ 7. Extension to four dimensions.
§ 8. Curvature of space.
§ 9. Standard masses of the particles.

The note accompanying these papers (B4/8) begins as follows: ‘This card folder contains a small number of loose and partly unidentified sheets that were separated from the otherwise orderly arrangement of the Eddington papers that had been in the hands of Professor N. B. Slater.’ There follows a brief description of the three letters (B4/5–7) and the sheets in Eddington’s hand (B4/1–9). Eddington’s manuscripts have been listed as nine items. The first (B4/1) forms a sequence of four sheets numbered from 36 to 39, formerly stapled together, as Dewhirst’s note records. The first sheet was marked by Slater in red biro: ‘(Attached to MS §a).’, apparently referring to B3/1, which comprises thirty-five sheets, though the character represented by the section-mark is indistinct. The next three items also appear to form distinct sequences, possibly all from the same doc-ument: B4/2, comprising six sheets numbered from 3 to 8; B4/3, two sheets, of which the second, unnumbered, clearly follows the first, which is numbered 10; and B4/4, comprising two sheets numbered 12 and 13. The remaining five sheets have been listed singly (B4/5–9). The first two of these contain similar tables on the back. The folder, which was simply marked with a ringed ‘A’, has been discarded.

(See the general note on this file.)

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These manuscripts are all in Eddington’s own hand, with the exception of the ringed pencil number on the first page of each and the foliation (in red biro, except B2/20), which were added by Slater, the former in June 1945, the latter about the end of 1947. Other notes by Slater indicate that there is a sheet missing from B2/22 between ff. 4 and 5, and that B2/29 f. 14 is a modification of f. 4.

Memoranda.

Chapter III: Multiplicity Factors.
§ 3∙1. The rigid-field convention.
§ 3∙2. Scale-free systems.
§ 3∙3. Partition of the energy tensor.
§ 3∙4. Rigid coordinates.
§ 3∙5. The fine-structure constant.
§ 3∙6. Vector particles.
§ 3∙7. Mass-ratio of the proton and electron.
§ 3∙8. Radiant energy.

§ 1. The conditions of observability.
§ 2. The Gaussian distribution.
§ 3. Relative distribution functions.
§ 4. Relative wave functions.
§ 5. The weight function.
§ 6. Uranoids.
§ 7. Spherical space.
§ 8. The zero-temperature uranoid.
§ 9. Primitive observables.
§ 10[a]. V3 and V4 particles [incomplete].
§ 10[b]. V3 and V4 particles.

§ 3∙1. Idempotent vectors.
§ 3∙2. Spectral sets of particles.
§ 3∙3. The linear wave equation.
§ 3∙4. Matrix representation of E-numbers.
§ 3∙5. Wave vectors and tensors.
§ 3∙6[a]. Space tensors and strain tensors of the second rank.
§ 3∙7[a]. Angular momentum.
§ 3∙8. The differential wave equation.
§ 3∙6[b]. The differential wave equation.
§ 3∙7[b]. Angular momentum.

§ 1∙1. The conditions of observability.
§ 1∙2. Measurables.
§ 1∙3. The fundamental tensor.
§ 1∙4. The comparison fluid.
§ 1∙5. Wave functions.
§ 1∙6. Density and mass.

(Earlier than B2/17. Contains two-number references.)

§ 1. The conditions of observability.
§ 2. Correlation.
§ 3. The uncertainty of the origin.

(Earlier than B2/17. Contains a reference to an article by H. C. Corben in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, xxxv (1939), 203.)

§ 9∙1. The general energy vector.
§ 9∙2. Charge and spin.
§ 9∙3. Reality conditions.
§ 9∙4. Combined transformations.
§ 9∙5. Hermitic wave tensors.
§ 9∙6. Reality conditions for space-time coordinates.
§ 9∙1[a]. The general energy vector.

§ 1∙1. Wave functions.
§ 1∙2. The fundamental tensor.
§ 1∙3. The comparison fluid.

ff. 1–9:
§ 1. Introduction.
§ 2. The theoretical formulae.
§ 3. Comparison of theory and observation.
§ 4. Alternative experimental methods.
§ 5. Values of the constants.

f. 10:
§ 5. The problem of consistency [beginning].

f. 11:
[§ 6. The β-coefficients [conclusion].]

ff. 12–21:
[§ 2. The theoretical formulae [conclusion].]
§ 3. Comparison of theory and observation
§ 4. Values of the constants.
§ 5. The problem of consistency.
§ 6. The β-coefficients.
§ 7. The spectroscopic e/mec.

ff. 22–5:
§ 6. The β-coefficients.
§ 7. The constant e/mec [beginning].

(This item comprises various superseded parts of B3/19. The sheets have been numbered in the order in which they were found, but it is possible that some jumbling has taken place. At least six different states of this paper may be distinguished, as follows:
(i) B3/18, ff. 1–9.
(ii) B3/19, ff. 1–6; B3/18, ff. 12–21
(iii) B3/19, ff. 1–12; B3/18, f. 10.
(iv) B3/19, ff. 1–15; B3/18, ff. 22–25;
(v) B3/19, ff. 1–16; B3/18, f. 11; B3/19, ff. 18–?.
(vi) B3/19, ff. 1–17, 17a, 18–23.)

§§ 1–2. [Unfinished.]

(See the general note on this file.)

§3∙1. The rigid-field.
§3∙2. Scale-free systems.
§3∙3. Allocation of the energy tensor.
§3∙4. Rigid coordinates.
§3∙5. The inversion of mass.
§3∙6. Standard particles and vector particles.
§3∙7. Mass-ratio of the proton and electron.
§3∙8. The fine-structure constant.
§3∙9. Radiant energy.

§ 1. Physical quantities.
§ 2. The definition of length.
§ 3. Molar theory and microscopic theory.
§ 3. Remarks on the definition.
§ 4. Length in an electromagnetic field.

§ 3∙1. The rigid-field convention.
§ 3∙2. Scale-free distributions.
§ 3∙3. Partition of the energy tensor.

§ 2∙1. The Bernoulli fluctuation.
§ 2∙2. The standard of length.
§ 2∙3. Non-uniform curvature of space.
§ 2∙4. The extraneous standard.
§ 2∙5. Pseudo-discrete wave functions.

(The title of § 2∙5 was altered from ‘Occupation factors’.)

§ 1∙1. Wave functions.
§ 1∙2. The fundamental tensor.

(Marked by Slater ‘later than h [i.e. B3/8]’.)

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