PHYSICAL WORLD GROWING BETTER
EARTH AND ITS ATMOSPHERE CONSTANTLY RENEWED BY HYDROGEN CHANGES. NEW YORK. Dr. Robert A. Millikan, whose discovery of the “cosmic ray" won him the Nobel prize for contribution to natural science, told the Holland Society here that his discovery proves almost conclusively that the physical universe is changing and growing, rather than decaying. His address was delivered at a dinner at which the society presented its gold medal to Dr. Millikan in recognition of his achievements. The years of experiments which led to discovery of the cosmic ray he said, convinced him that the physical universe is constantly being renewed by formation of elements from the fundamental hydrogen through its changes into silicon, helium and oxygen. The cosmic rays, most powerful of all rays, he said, are radiant energy liberated in the formation of other atomic structures from the basic hydrogen. They penetrate the earth's atmosphere from the outside.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6802, 4 January 1929, Page 12
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