COSMOS IN A SUITCASE.
One puff of smoke from a pipe of tobacco v must expand to fill a cube 10 miles in length, breadth, and height before it becomes reduced to the density of an interstellar cloud. The cosmic matter in a volume as large as the earth can be packed in a suitcase and easily carried with _ one _ hand.” This statement was contained in a lecture broadcast in Great Britain a few weeks ago by Professor A. S. Eddington, professor'of astronomy at Cambridge University.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20743, 14 June 1929, Page 15
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86COSMOS IN A SUITCASE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20743, 14 June 1929, Page 15
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