EXPANDING UNIVERSE
EVIDENCE OF TELESCOPES. RECESSION CLEARLY SHOWN. LONDON, October 14. The universe resembles fragments of a hurst shell, all apparently receding from one another, Sir James Jean, the famous physicist and astronomer, told tho Birmingham Institute in an address. “I suggest that Birmingham is at this moment receding from London, though I. think we are all a shade further apart than if the universe were not expanding,” he said. “The distance between London and Birmingham is complicated by too many other factors to permit the recession to reveal itself, but telescopes show the recession most clearly elsewhere in the universe. “An analysis of light of distant nebulae show the nebulae receding at a million times' the speed of an express train.
“Most cosmogonies start on the assumption that the universe originated as a continuous mass of gas filling the whole of space. Theoretical investigations prove that such a mass could not stay spread uniformly throughout space.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 16, 30 October 1933, Page 8
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