THE LIFE OF THE SUN
NEW SCIENTIFIC ESTIMATE.
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LONDON, 26th August. An outstanding declaration at tJa> meeting of the British Association was a statement by Professor Eddington, president of the Physical Section, that the sun can maintain its output of heat for fifteen billion years.' This estimate is based on the contention that the sun and stars do not depend for their heat upon contraction, as maintained in the Helmholtz and Kelvin theories, but upon some vast reservoir of sub-atomic energy. Professor Eddington declared that the sun must date back to a time so remote that there is no limit to estimates of the earth's age. Sir Edward Thorpe has been nominated as President of the British Association for the meeting in Edinburgh in 1921. It is understood that the policy of holding occasional visits in outlying portions of the Empire is to be continued^ and that the association will meet in Colombo in 1922. ■ ■
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 51, 28 August 1920, Page 5
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