MARVELLOUS SOLAR UNIVERSES ON EARTH.

Northland Age, Volume 4, Issue 3, 3 September 1907, Page 6

MARVELLOUS SOLAR UNIVERSES ON EARTH.

TERRIFIC SPEW OF. BMNWLIUCTIONS. J r % It la noir known that electricity *la made of particle* so small that oa'ly, the power of mathematics can even begin to realise their site. They are about on* thirty-thousandth part of the size of atoms, whence all matter Is composed. And thane are so minute that brain cannot evolve thought ot their mlnutensen. T’h* study ot corpuscles, as Prof, E.. L. Larkin calls these particle*. Is now attracting the attention of not only professional electricians, but ot mathematicians, physicists and chemists of the highest rank. The corpuscles are known to be centre* of force. They have the power of the universe in their possession. They are the workers and builders, and likewise the disintegrators. Matter as we see it in a more toy in thoir hands. They can tear a mass of solid steel to atoms, or gently rest on the surface of a gold foil. They rend the atoms of metals apart, carrying them to otheir places and build them up anew. The corpuscles pay no attention to t.be winds and waves, but flash human intelligence through the air or under the sea. They have aU nature in their grasp. The keynote of the new century had been sounded. For when man learns all about corpuscles, and how to chain them to servitude, he is the possessor of unlimited power over matter. For matter cannot withstand their force. The t is to say, man will do what they wish with matter. Electricity, therefore. Is not a continuous fluid, but is broken up into exceedingly small parts.

ENORMOUS POWER. When one corpuscle is free, its power is so enormous that it can travel with the amazing speed of 186,000 miles per second. The sun has eight planets, and more than 500 asteroids revolving around it, and the vast machine is called the solar system. But each atom of ordinary matter has one electron in revolution around it.

Free, uncombined corpuscles, those that are not locked, and hence free to move, constitute tho life of the universe. But corpuscles are electricity pure and simple, the Professor tells us. Day by day. testimony comes in from many sourees, saying in ever increasing loudness of tone, that the base of the entire universe is electricity. And likewise life and thought. Every atom Is composed of corpuscles of electricity. If an atom is nectral electrically, that is, exhibits no electrical properties, it contains a certain definite number of corpuscle#. Now take out one corpuscle and the atom becomes charged “positively." Add one. and it is "negatively” charged. Thus, there are not two kinds of electricity; only one, and opposite phenomena are due to excess or diminution of ithe number of corpuscles in an atom of it. Every corpuscle repels another, This is unlike matter which already attracts by gravitation. This repulsion has been measured and is as follows :—One corpuscle at a distance of' four-tenths of an inch from another in an absolute vacuum will repel another with a force of one seven-trillionth of a grain. This is fhr greater than the attraction of gravitation. Suppose two one-grain masses of corpuscles are placed fourtenths of an inch apart—then the repulsion exerted by each upon the other will be 20,000 billions tons ! No wonder that tho giant electricity can do anything with gross matter. It is seen by all advanced physicists and mathematicians that human, beings can draw a simply unlimited power from the storehouse of nature. Instead of securing power at great cost from coal, man may discover, and doubtless will, the secret of tapping the infinite reservoirs. Then the career of humanity will be completely modified. It may be that everybody can get all the "electric quantity" he wants to the discomfiture and dismay of companies, syndicates, or trusts.

TWO BILLIONS PER SECOND. Electric corpuscles give life to the entire universe by their attractions, repulsions and motions. Light is one manifestation. But it is now discovered that the orbital revolutions of electrons round the atoms, as the earth around the sun. cause light. The mass and diameters of oorpuscles are known. And likewise the diameters of atoms. A positively charged atom attracts a negative electron as the sun attracts the earth. The distance of the earth from the sun is known, and its speed on its orbit. A tendency called centrifugal (flying from the centre! is set up when one body revolves around another, and the centrifugal tendency due to the motion ot the earth is easily computed, and is four trillion tons. This is its reaction against the sun's attraction'. In the absence ot solar gravitation a wire strong enough to hold so many tons would be required between the earth and the sun to hold the earth on its pathway. And by computing the distances and velocities of corpuscles in their circuits around atoms, while knowing velocities, the times of revolution become known. And from this follows the number of revolutions per second. It comes out at two billions, 200,000 millions per second.—" Science Siftings."