ORIGIN OF THE EARTH

Evening Star, Issue 19351, 10 September 1926, Page 12

ORIGIN OF THE EARTH

WAS IT BURIED FROM THE SUM ? Professor John Snyder, of the Philadelphia Observatory, whose theory that the earth was formed by expulsion of a segment of the sun’s interior in an atom explosion of terrific force was recently announced, has amplified his statement with a graphic description of the sun in its “ astronomic status of a cosmic cannon.” Professor Snyder, after twenty-five years’ research and study, announced that he believed the earth had boon hurled from the sun in a long, sweeping curve ‘‘similar to what a baseball player calls an ‘ out-drop,’ ” as ho explained it. “The, sun and all rotating stars are natural automatic cannons, which in great outbursts hurl out their surrounding systems and m minor outbursts produce surface rui>tures like the sunspots and eruptive prominences,” he said. “All the physical facts of the solar system are explained by the theory of atomic volcanLsm. The interior of the sun and all heavenly bodies is an atom-making arsenal. Deep inside the sun the atoms are continually being built up from their raw materials, the protons and electrons. The explosive stream is fed largely by the centrifugal electron of the sun’s rotation, and it constitutes a sort of internal pumping system that delivers the- explosives spasmodically into the equatorial regions of the sun. The sun, like a. cannon, experiences recoil. The result of the recoil is a tendency to explode in opposite directions. The explosion that hurled out the planet earth, hurled from the opposite side of the sun the planet, Venus. What pulls the trigger nf this solar cannon? When the stream of heavy explosive atoms rises from the regions of great pressure into regions near tho surface whore the pressure .is less, there is a tendency for the atoms to break into their raw materials. Their approach to regions of less pressure fires them off. The rapid flow of explosives toward rhe surface transforms them explosively, and thus Nature pulls-the trigger of her super TJNLJL”