SCIENTISTS PUZZLED
NEW THEORY OF THE ATOM. YOUNG DOCTOR’S THEORY. Dr. P. A. M. Dirac, a young Cambridge man, startled and puzzled scientists in the Physical Science Section of the British Association at Bristol when he propounded a new and profoundly abstruse theory of the atom. His audience was startled because Sir Oliver Lodge, who had listened with intense interest, gave the speaker his benediction and confessed that he was fascinated by the theory^ His listeners were puzzled because most of them, including the chairman of the section, frankly confessed that they were unable to understand it. “This theory is quite new to me,” said Sir Oliver Lodge. “Dr. Dirac has developed a theory of the proton and electron which, so far as I understand it at present, commends itself greatly lo me. He seems to find no objecion in the great crowdedness of space. ‘ Matter is an infinitestimal part of space.
“Space is the important thing. Matter is merely an occasional interruption in ils continuity. I welcome this new theory. ! .think that, when developed, it should lead us on the way we want to gc."
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18159, 25 October 1930, Page 4
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