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In the first article reviewed, "The Nebular Origins of Life," R.W. Western discusses the scientific conventional thinking of the time on the origin of life. It is interesting in that Western seems skeptical of scientists trying to dabble in the metaphysics. He writes that scientists "have set the example of indulging in speculations in which imagination has played a greater part than scientific method"(90). The duration of the article depicts a skeptical writer of the newest theories of the day whether the theories proffered were spontaneous generation or importation.
In the next two articles identically titled, "Relativity and Metaphysics," there is a change of direction. The author, in the second article (on a chronological basis) delineates the effect that the theory of relativity, which altered the perception of the universe ubiquitously, should allow for the quantum theory to be held up to the same introspection. This is interesting because at the time of publishing, the quantum theory which is now called the old quantum theory, has essentially been altered to include all movements not just ones that obeyed the old quantum condition (the old quantum condition required that the movements would be restricted to those that the integral would allow, which restricts plausible possibilities of quantum movement). The author goes into detail about special relativity and its conceptual consequences concerning electromagnetic radiation energy and length contraction. In addition, the author attempts to continuously compare the concepts of relativity to the human process. In fact he uses a term repetitively, the ego-entity, which is a term he defines in the first of the two articles.
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The author defines ego-entity through a series of contrasts, but his initial attempt can be viewed as the simplest. If one were to separate the world into two categories, the measured and the measurement, the author contends that the ego-entity is the measurements that we produce not because of truth, but because of our essential nature. That nature being the "bourn" of our conceptualization of space and time which is unable to perceive of the infinite. Therefore the ego-entity has the innate quality of being a comprehendible thought.
One example the author provides for elucidation of the ego-entity is the idea of identifying a mark. If one were to perceive the mark as in a certain frame of space it requires the addition of the time dimension for it to be understood. For instance, look outside the window, it looks like a two-dimensional graph of a scene. What makes the picture have a 3rd dimension is movement. For without movement, the view of scenery could be a 2-dimensional drawing. The same is with the mark, for the human mind to conceive of it, it must be placed within a finite space and in a finite time, for without these two conditions, it is the abstract. That is exactly what the ego-entity requires for it to be categorized as such.
