The Philosophy of Physics in Transition
Talk by L. L. Whyte
Lance Whyte studied physics under Rutherford and Einstein. He was later Managing Director of a firm that helped to lay the foundations of Great Britain's supremacy in the field of jet-propulsion. He has also found time to write several books - notably 'Next Development in Man' - and he Is now engaged on one dealing with the relation of physical principles and biological processes.
In this talk Mr. Whyte discusses the shift of emphasis now taking place In physical thought, from the old insistence on particles and mechanical laws controlling their motion to ideas of pattern and transformation of pattern. This, he says, is a fundamental change only comparable to the change in the seventeenth century associated with the name of Sir Isaac Newton.
