Twenty years of physics: Particles

MAY 01, 1968

Abraham Pais

HOT VERSUS COLD; dry versus wet. Such were the two values of the pair of attributes that in antique and medieval speculation characterized “the” four elements, the substances from which all bodies are made or derived: hot, dry fire; hot, wet air; cold, wet water; cold, dry earth.

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Abraham Pais, Rockefeller University.

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