2026-10-09 Project Gutenberg: Lucien Poincare, The New Physics and Its Evolution (1907)

URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15207/pg15207.txt (saved: research/pages/gutenberg-15207.txt). Grepped for Le Bon. Found [web: URL above]: - Footnote 32 (editor): Le Bon recalls 1897 notes to the Academie asserting uranium's properties were "a particular case of a very general law" and that its rays did not polarize. - Main text (ch. on radioactivity): if radioactive transformation leads to "complete dislocation of the atom", then "all bodies whatever are a kind of explosive decomposing with extreme slowness. There is in this, whatever may have been said, nothing contrary to any of the principles on which the science of energetics rests"; "we all know with what alluring boldness M. Gustave Le Bon has developed all these consequences in his work on the evolution of matter." Bears on: claim 7 (ordinary matter slowly transforming) and on how a contemporary physicist placed Le Bon beside Rutherford. Result: positive.