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The
Comprehensibility of the Universe A NEW CONCEPTION OF SCIENCE,
says: “The best available more or less specific metaphysical view as to how the universe is physically comprehensible, a view which asserts that everything is composed of some more or less specific kind of physical entity, all change and diversity being, in principle, explicable in terms of this kind of entity. Examples, taken from the history of physics are: the corpuscular hypothesis of the seventeenth century, according to which the universe consists of minute, infinitely rigid corpuscles that interact only by contact; the view, associated with Newton and Boscovich, according to which the universe consists of point-atoms that possess mass and interact at a distance by means of rigid, spherically symmetrical, centrally directed forces; the unified field view, associated with Faraday and Einstein, according to which everything is made up of one self-interacting field, particles of matter being especially intense regions of the field. "
Nicholas Maxwell links Boscovich with the unified field theory approach of Einstein, but does not then say who was working with Einstein on this unified field theory.
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Roger