ORIGIN OF THE EARTH.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1926, Page 9

ORIGIN OF THE EARTH.

WAS IT HURLED FROM THE SCN? Professor John Snyder, of the Philadelphia Observatory, whose theory that the earth was formed by expulsion of a segment of the sun’s interior in an atom explosion of terrific force was recently announced, has amplified his statement with a graphic description of the son in ite “astronomic status of a cosmic cannon.” Professor Snyder,, after 25 years’ research and study, announced that ho believed the earth had been hurled from the sun in a long, sweeping curve “similar to what a baseball player calls an ‘out-drop,’” as he explained it. “The sun and all rotating stars are natural automatic cannons, which in great outbursts hurl • out their surrounding systems and in minor outbursts produce surface ruptures like the sunspots and eruptive prominences,” he said. “All the physical facts of the solar system are explained by the theory of atomic volcanism. The interior of the sun and all heavenly bodies is an atom-making arsenal. Deep inside the sun the atoms are continually being built up from their raw materials, the protons and electrons. The explosive stream is fed largely by the centrifugal election of the sun’s rotation, and it constitutes a sort of internal pumping system that delivers the explosives spasmodically into the equatorial regions of the sun. The sun, like a cannon, experiences recoil. The result of the recoil is a tendency to explode in opposite directions. The explosion that hurled out the planet earth, hurled from the opposite of the sun the planet Venus. What pulls the trigger of this solar cannon? When the stream of heavy explosive atoms rises from the regions of great pressure into regions near the surface where the pressure is less, there is a tendency for the atoms to break into their raw materials. Their approach to regions of less pressure fires them off. The rapid flow of explosives towards the surface transforms them explosively, and thus Nature pulls the trigger of her super T.N.T.”