ABSTRACT
Whitehead was no stranger to science; much of his speculative philosophy rests on its results - especially Albert Einstein's relativity theory. Newton's Scholium begins with two main remarks on space and time. Regarding space, Newton writes: Absolute space, in its own nature, without relation to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Newton, typically, passes over the possible interpretations of these comments in silence. But the point here is that God, although he is related to the world, is not bound by physical laws. Actual entities play a very similar role in Whitehead's thought as the points of space and time play in Newton's. Whitehead stresses repeatedly in process and reality that actual entities do not move. The chapter concerns the problem of trying to construct a speculative philosophy that includes both God and the basic space-time framework of relativity.
