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When Lord Salisbury says that nature is a mystery, he means... that this simple conception of Boscovich is refuted almost in every branch of science,… - Ludwig Boltzmann
" "When Lord Salisbury says that nature is a mystery, he means... that this simple conception of Boscovich is refuted almost in every branch of science, the Theory of Gases not excepted. The assumption that the molecules are aggregates of material points, in the sense of Boscovich, does not agree with the facts. But what else are they? And what is the ether through which they move? Let us again hear Lord Salisbury. He says<blockquote>"What the atom of each element is, whether it is a movement, or a thing, or a vortex, or a point having inertia, all these questions are surrounded by profound darkness. I dare not use any less pedantic word than entity to designate the ether, for it would be a great exaggeration of our knowledge if I were to speak of it as a body, or even as a substance."</blockquote>
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Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics. He was one of the most important advocates for atomic theory which was still highly controversial.
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Mr. Culverwell says that my theorem cannot be true because if it were true every atom of the universe would have the same average , and all energy would be dissipated. I find, on the contrary, that this argument only lends to confirm my theorem, which requires only that in the course of time the universe must tend to a state where the average vis viva of every atom is the same and all energy is dissipated, and that is indeed the case.
These transverse vibrations are not produced (as in the older theories of light) by simple atomic vibrations, but their pitch depends on the shape of the hollow space which the molecule forms in the ether, just as Hertzian waves are not caused by vibrations of the ponderable matter of the brass balls, the form of which only determines the pitch.
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If this theory were to hold good for all phenomena, we should be still a long way off what Faust's famous famulus [Wagner] hoped to attain, viz., to know everything. But the difficulty of enumerating all the material points of the universe, and of determining the law of mutual force for each pair, would be only a quantitative one; nature would be a difficult problem, but not a mystery for the human mind.
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