ABSTRACT
Louis De Broglie accessed and Milic Capek have described some interesting similarities between the philosophical ideas of Henri Bergson and the profound conceptual changes introduced into physics by quantum theory and the theory of relativity. A dominant theme in Bergson's thought is his view that the concept of time used in classical physics does not conform to the nature of real time as defined by the concrete process of becoming. In classical theory the momentum distribution function is independent of the spatial distribution function. But in quantum theory all the information is contained in either one alone. The point is simply that the observations that form the data of physics are completely defined by what is observed, including the clock and ruler readings. In conclusion, it appears that Bergson's insistence on the non-fundamental character of the spatial and temporal continua is supported by certain recent developments in physics.
