Citizens Say

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 986, 31 May 1930, Page 8

Citizens Say

(To the Editor.)

A FEEDER BUS SERVICE

Sir,— , , The Wa-terview Ratepayers Association at a meeting held on the 27th inst., made a protest against the feeder bus service between Point Chevalier Hall and Avondale, owing to its jnconvenience, and asked that the through service to the City might be restored, failing that, to hand over the route to a private company. Now, sir, do you think it right for 60 persons to voice the opinions of 6,000? Most Avondale people are satisfied with the present arrangement, and_ furthermore, not 50 per cent, of the audience comprised Waterview ratepayers. If the Transport Board were foolish enough to hand over the route to a private company I think that the Avondale people would invariably get a “strap-hanging seat” during rush hours, and it -would be of no use complaining. Further, these people would be working to the detriment of their own property. VERITAS.

AN APPRECIATIVE READER

Sir, — I feel I must send you a letter of thanks and appreciation over the

stand you have taken in championing the cause of the little deaf children in this city. The sub-leaders appearing on the 19th and 23rd were a valuable help along the lines of publicity. You also inserted a report of the meeting, and letters to the editor, in a very fine spirit The parents Interested have attained, halfway, their objective. They have formed themselves into an association for the welfare of the'deaf. We now hope to obtain the other half, and influence the Education Department to establish a school in Auckland. I feel we have to thank your paper for the success of our effort. As one of the founders of the movement, I feel it my duty to thank you for the fine spirit The Sun has shown. I take your paper every day, and I can assure you of my loyal support always. A. B. WILSON. Epsom.

MR. FIELD’S WORK

Sir,— In connection with Mr. Field’s work. I add the following comments in reply to the letter of “W.G.5.," as given in last Saturday’s Sun. It is clear that your correspondent has a dim conception of the way that important scientific discoveries are disseminated.

--VV.G.S.” wrote of the leaders of the New Zealand Institute suppressing Mr Field’s article on earthquakes. If Mr. Field’s conclusions are valid, and emerge naturally from correct observations. this situation is practically Impossible. The advisory board of any scientific institute would not dare to “suppress” a paper unless it were of an inaccurate or platitudinous character. On the contrary, the editors of scientific journals are only too keen to be first with accurate results. New. Zealand is remote from major centres cf learning, and it is most unlikely that the “leaders of the New Zealand Institute” would refuse any article which was of value, and the publication of which would bring credit to the institute.

The position is easily tested- Mr. Field can offer to lecture at the scientific meetings, or send his conclusions to the technical journals of other countries, thus exposing any conspiracy among local scientists, which is a ridiculous supposition. I add that “Nature” is not a “magazine,” as W.G.S. calls it. It is one of the leading scientific periodicals of the world, one in which the space of two or three pages would be* allotted only for §ome brilliant discovery or conclusion of a leading scientist. My suggestion of a ‘ brief contribution” to “Nature" is the best way out of the alleged difficulty. Any conclusion can be summarised in 500 words. Some time ago, Professor Einstein - presented to r. scientific conference an important paper which consisted of a few pages of tvpewriting. MOLECULE. FORECASTING Sir. — Now I come nearer to the foundation of my work, to matters which call for more thought from those who would delve deeper into the workings of the sun. So far from there being any unusual compression in the rotating sun, there is at all times and in all latitudes a continuous flow of tne molten matter toward the surfp.ee. The flow is not directly outward; its course must be in long spiral curves, turning eastward, and lying in planes that are at right angles to the axis. It is obvious that for the whole sun to maintain the equiangular rotation which science would allow it, the nolten matter would flow outward with an almost uniform acceleration just sufficient tj produce everywhere an eastward movement proportional to distance from the axis. But there is nothing to produce acceleration such as that. Instead, we find the case is like that. of a falling body; with increase in distance from the axis the rate of rotation becomes more and more rapid; at any* part the molten matter flows eastward faster than the matter immediately beneath it. Upon reaching the surface, the molten matter seeks a still irreater tadius. and it attains this by a surfac drift toward lower latitudes. Thus everywnere upon the surface tnere is the rotational movement from west tu east, which is fastest at the equator and decreases more and more rapidly till it disappears at each pole: and, in sedition, there is a general suriart drift toward the equator. In consider* j lng the effects of rotation, science lils rightly conceived the idea of a dc- : creasing polar diameter, and ha* wrongly conceived an increase of diameter —or a protuberance—at tae equator only. Professor Pickering has recently applied such arguments the sun. and has found that, though wt-

see rothing of such a protuberance as he computes, the existence of such a protuberance would account for the changes in Mercury’s orbit which the theory of relativity sought to explain* The truth is that the sun usually l** s In its lower latitudes an increased diameter which does effect Mercury—every other planet to a lesser extent, but rhat it is most difficult to detect, because it is so hidden by the vapor ous photosphere which rises everywhere to almost exactly the same distance from the sun’s centre oflW® condensing at its upper surface under suitable conditions of temperature ana pressure. And the nature of this remarkable protuberance in low solar latitudes calls for much explanation. The force conducive to the surface drift or tide is greatest about ’atituae 45 degrees. It disappears at each poiwith the disappearance of rotation*movement, and it disappears at equator as the solar outline approaches cylindrical form. Consequently, the of the tide in each hemisphere is rapid just below latitude 45 degr«» But the crest of the protuberance aces not remain there. It slowly moves toward the equator, gaining height * it proceeds. And any* increase. * height gives increase in rotations* movement. What will happen when, ages to come, the crests of the P ro v"' ! terances from both hemispheres, n° | at the equator I must not tell ! snd no one will then be alive in in world to witness it. Present condlUOT provide an effective regulator ° r S° ' ernor to avert the final i With increase in the height of a ti crest and its slow approach j the equator there comes consioerac . i increased gravitation on the crest- - ' »s soon as this gravitation at part of the crest overcomes the cou ~“ teracting forces, the molten the crest begins to burst inward a sun-spot period starts. The inn. having started, it descends to the axia legions of the sun, to increase as*®? ; The polar diameter. Frctn the tini e j leaves the surface it be Jins to lose eastward movement. It continues | move eastward, but with continu retardation. It descends at first P« j pendicularly; then, relative to the fc ‘ lace movement, it flows westw following in the opposite direction •- same spiral curve that is taken b> outflow T» F. R. FIE!-*** (To be continued)