Who Will Observe The Observers?

Time Is The Supreme Law Of Nature.

A Star Is Drawing On Some Vast Reservoir Of Energy By Means Unknown To Us. This Reservoir Can Scarcely Be Other Than The Subatomic Energy Which, It Is Known Exists Abundantly In All Matter; We Sometimes Dream That Man Will One Day Learn How To Release It And Use It For His Service. The Store Is Well Nigh Inexhaustible, If Only It Could Be Tapped. There Is Sufficient In The Sun To Maintain Its Output Of Heat For 15 Billion Years.

There Once Was A Brainy Baboon, Who Always Breathed Down A Bassoon, For He Said, It Appears That In Billions Of Years I Shall Certainly Hit On A Tune.

Let Us Suppose That An Ichthyologist Is Exploring The Life Of The Ocean. He Casts A Net Into The Water And Brings Up A Fishy Assortment. Surveying His Catch, He Proceeds In The Usual Manner Of A Scientist To Systematise What It Reveals. He Arrives At Two Generalisations: No Sea-creature Is Less Than Two Inches Long. (2) All Sea-creatures Have Gills. These Are Both True Of His Catch, And He Assumes Tentatively That They Will Remain True However Often He Repeats It.

To The Pure Geometer The Radius Of Curvature Is An Incidental Characteristic - Like The Grin Of The Cheshire Cat. To The Physicist It Is An Indispensable Characteristic. It Would Be Going Too Far To Say That To The Physicist The Cat Is Merely Incidental To The Grin. Physics Is Concerned With Interrelatedness Such As The Interrelatedness Of Cats And Grins. In This Case The "cat Without A Grin" And The "grin Without A Cat" Are Equally Set Aside As Purely Mathematical Phantasies.