OMINOUS MOVES IN EAST

Northern Advocate, 8 February 1936, Page 5

OMINOUS MOVES IN EAST

Important Scientific Achievements

(United Press Associatlon.-By Electric ' Telegraph. — Copyright .] Received 10 a.m.)

NEW YORK, February 6.

Three scientific achievements of more than passing interest were announced from three American universities.

The physics laboratory of the North Western University, Chicago, announces the generation of heat to the extent of 12,000 degrees fahrenheit by means of an electric arc.

This is the hottest temperature, it is believed, in any place in the universe. The successful generation was achieved while, outside the laboratory, temperatures below zero prevailed in an unprecedented cold wave.

Havard University indicates the identification of the double eclipsing stai 29, Canis Majoris, which is visible to the naked eye in the southern sky under Sirius, near the constellation Orion, as the heaviest star in the heavens. The diameter is said to be 4000 times that of the earth and 40,000,000 times as heavy. The star is described as being 20,000 [light years away from the earth, and as being composed of two giant bodies revolving about one another and hiding one another at regular intervals. New Relativity Theory.

Finally, at Yale University, Professes Leigh announces a new theory of relativity, which broadens the foundation of Einstein’s special theory of relativity of 1905. Unlike the latter, which applied itself to motions of the celestial body, this applies itself to the atom, and “offers hopes of acquiring a better understanding of the motion occurring therein.”

More especially, the new theory leads to the possibility of types of motion not even dreamt of by Einstein. Otherwise this theory is so intensely mathematical that it would be hopeless to try and explain it in plain language.