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THE PRYING EYE OF SCIENCE LONDON, September 14. Fairies are hallucinations produced by eye trouble, cranial injuries and various illnesses like epilepsy and migraine, said Mr R. W. Sayce, the scientist, at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Fatigue, he said, also produces visions of fairies, people often seeing them while returning across hills, after a-n exhausting day. Lord Rutherford, speaking in the very room in which the late Lord Kelvin declared, in 1907, that the atom was indestructible, described how it had been split into at least 80 constituents. Experiments, however, proved to be moonshine the hopes of those who expected, by splitting the atom, to release the mighty energy of Nature. Atoms are still mysterious, he said, and scientists probably would be able in a few years to get some idea of what atoms are, how they are made, and how they work.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22066, 23 September 1933, Page 12
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