THE ATOM
NEAV LINE OF RESEARCH
SUGGESTION BY SIR OLIVER LODGE.
3Y 0.-.;ii,r -t-HUSS A53001 ATION—COPYEIGHT Received Jan. 3, 9 a.m _. LONDON, Jan. 2. +1, hn v t^^- 31' Lodge, in an article in the iLmpire Review, suggests a new line ot research, aiming at the harnessing of the atoms of energy by bmldmg up complex atoms from simple atoms, instead of attemoting to break off comp.ex atoms as "hitherto: He explains that when the hydrogen atom is packed into helium, whose atom is believed to consist of four hydrogen atoms, a fraction of the hydrogen disappeared,, and the liberated energy is so gigantic that the result would put all otner sources of energy to shame ordinary combustion, due to packing atoms into molecules, being a loosi sort of association which gi*es a very smajl amount of energy. Nobody ha* yet seen matter converted into energy ?+ F 11-??I 1-?? Z* TS?' but he e^P«cts some dly will *be done—Sydney Sun Cables
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 3 January 1924, Page 5
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161THE ATOM Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 3 January 1924, Page 5
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