SIR OLIVER LODGE
PREDICTION ABOUT THE MOON. WILL CRASH UPON THE EARTH. (Presa Association—By TeJcgrnph— Copyright ) LONDON, January 29. (Received Jan. 30, at 5.5 p.m.) Sir Oliver Lodge predicts that the time is certain to come when the earth will stop spinning, and the moon will crash upon it. The speed at which the earth is rotating is gradually slowing down, owing to the friction of the tides. The moon is no longer spinning, because the earth produced tides therein which stopped the rotating. There was a time when the earth spun so fast that a day was only four hours long. The moon then was part of the earth, but broke away, and has moved further away ever since. When the earth’s rotation ceases the process will be reversed, and the moon will return and crash down upon her parent. Stupid people even in the present day take a great poem in the first chapter of Genesis, and interpret it literally. There was a sort of disturbance when science discovered that the universe was not brought into existence in a great hurry in a period of 14-1 hours. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20320, 31 January 1928, Page 9
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