Show foundations OF SCIENCE the only two objective existences arf the are matter and energy matter so far as we know can nelt heri be destroyed nor brought into enca by any natural agency can be destroyed nor brought into existence by any natural agency these and these alone are the foundations ot science a revolution in science would only mean that one or other ot them had they are troth experiment aad observation nothing in the nature 0 things to 1 show that they toe true and hey arso far from being obvious that they wre only established within be last century and have not yet become an essential part of popular thought in this sense than the discoveries about radium and its con genera ha td ceased no change in chemistry they have indeed seriously our views as to atomic theory I 1 ot elements bringing us back to a ww form of the old doctrine of the al chemists that all the countless va of matter might be only of one or two fundamental forms they have led us to perceive vast stores of energy lying all around vs whose very existence was previously unsuspected and which it we can only discover how to tap them are capable of doing all the work of the world they have even encouraged us to believe that the two entities matter and energy may conceivably of each other or of prime val ur stoff of which all even the eternal mystery of 1 are woven on the loom of time but to speak ot a revolution in science Is at least premature nor to say anything stronger |