The End of the World (From the Standpoint of Mathematical Physics.)
S. Eddington
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I am afraid that the title of my address is not quite explicit. It lacks that precision of statement which ought to characterise the utterances of a mathematician. I have undertaken to speak to you about the End of the World, but I have not told you which end . The world—or space-time—is a four-dimensional continuum, and consequently offers a choice of a great many directions in which we might start off to look for an end; and it is by no means easy to describe “from the standpoint of mathematical physics” the direction in which I intend to lead you. I have therefore to examine at some length the preliminary question, Which end? But that leads us so deeply into the whole problem that by the time I have finished with it my address will be over.
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