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(Pasted inside the back cover is a statement of Eddington’s account with the Clarendon Press in respect of sales of Stars and Atoms during the year ending 31 Mar. 1944.)

(See the general note on this file.)

(This paper includes a description of Eddington’s visit to the Laboratory in Oct. 1934. W. E. Burcham described the circumstances of its composition as follows: ‘towards the end of 1934 Sir Arthur Eddington wrote a pamphlet describing the Cavendish and its achievements to form the basis of ‘an appeal to the friends of science and of Cambridge’. The pamphlet was published in Feb. 1935, and privately circulated to possible benefactors both within and outside Cambridge. See ‘The Cavendish High-voltage Laboratory 1935-39’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. liii, pp. 121-2. (The title appears under the heading ‘Miscellaneous’ in D2/3.))

(The words ‘Broadcast—Calcutta’ have been added above the title and struck through. Cf. Douglas, pp. 105-6. Two lectures of the same title are listed in D2/3.)

(Folios 13–15, which are wanting, may have been discarded intentionally; see the note on f. 12.)

(Marked by Slater: ‘Lectures as delivered orally.’ The date assigned to this document is the date the lectures were given.)

(This is an early version of part of a report to the Royal Society by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee. The latest date mentioned in it is 14 July 1919, and the report was received by the Society on 30 October and read on 6 November.)

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

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

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

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

§ 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.

§ 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.

§ 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”’.)

§ 1. The uncertainty of the origin.
§ 2. The physical origin.
§ 3. The Bernoulli fluctuation.
§ 4. The standard of length.
§ 5. Range of nuclear forces and the recession of the galaxies.
§ 6. Spherical space.
§ 7. Uranoids.
§ 8. The extraneous standard.
§ 9. Scale-free physics.
§ 10. Pseudo-discrete states.
§ 11. Stabilisation.

§ 1. The uncertainty of the origin.
§ 2. The Gaussian distribution.
§ 3. The Bernoulli fluctuation.
§ 4. The standard of length.
§ 5. Range of nuclear forces and the recession of the galaxies.
§ 6. Non-uniform curvature.
§ 7. Uranoids.
§ 8. The extraneous standard.
§ 9. Scale-free physics.
§ 10. Pseudo-discrete distributions.
§ 11. Stabilisation.

(Drafted Dec. 1942; revised Aug. 1943.)

§ 2∙1. Sub-normalisation.
—— Symbolic occupation factors.

(The second section is unnumbered.)

§ 12. Object-fields.
§ 13. The rigid field convention.
§ 14. Separation of particle and field energy.
§ 15. Application to scale-free systems.
§ 16. Standard carriers.
§ 17. Mass-ratio of the proton and electron.
§ 18. The fine-structure constant.
§ 19. Rigid coordinates.
§ 20. Unsteady states.
§ 21. The inversion of energy.

(Drafted Dec. 1942; revised Aug. 1943.)

§ 12. Complementary fields.
§ 13. The rigid-field convention.
§ 14. Separation of field and particle energy.
§ 15. Application of scale-free systems.
§ 16. The ‘top particle’.
§ 17. Standard carriers.
§ 18. Mass-ratio of the proton and electron.
§ 19. Rigid coordinates.
§ 20. The fine-structure constant.
§ 21. The inversion of energy.
§ 22. Mutual and self energy.
§ 23. Comparison particles.

§ 2∙1. Particles with spin.
§ 2∙2. Relativity rotations.
§ 2∙3. Neutral space-time.
§ 2∙4. Strain vectors.
§ 2∙5[a]. Reality conditions.
§ 2∙5[b]. Flat space-time.
§ 2∙6. Determinants and eigenvalues.
§ 2∙7. Phase space.
§ 2∙8. Probability distribution of strain vectors.

(§§ 2∙1 and 2∙2 were renumbered from 1∙1 and 1∙2 and, as a result, §§ 2∙3, 2∙4, and 2∙5[a] were renumbered from 2∙2, 2∙3, and 2∙4 respectively; but the necessary alterations to the numbering were carried no further. The title of § 2∙8 was altered from ‘Probability distribution of phase space’.)

§ 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.

§ 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’.)

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

§ 22. Mutual and self energy.
§ 23. Comparison particles.
§ 24. The phase coordinate.
§ 25. Interchange.
§ 26. Hydrocules.
§ 27. The β-factors.
§ 28. The observational system.
§ 29. Calculated values of the microscopic constants.
§ 30. The two-particle transformation.

(Drafted Dec. 1942; revised Aug. 1943.)

§ 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.

§ 24. The phase dimension.
§ 25. Interchange of suffixes.
§ 26. The two-particle transformation.
§ 27. Hydrocules.
§ 28. Separation of electrical energy.
§ 29. Current masses of the proton and electron.
§ 30. Molarly controlled charge.
§ 31. Secondary anchors.
§ 32. Calculated values of the microscopic constants.
§ 33. The Coulomb energy.

§ 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.)