PARTIAL IMPACT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14053, 10 November 1909, Page 7

PARTIAL IMPACT.

PROFESSOR BICKERTONS THEORY.

Asked bv a newspaper correspondent to give "" clear a » tl , ort f? lv ? his thcorv of "Partial Impact, lie following, through the l^Ud-u Ti ßeirr two star, (that k *««»> collide, they arc pulletl it yean, towards one another, and tins p» up a velocity of hundreds of wilt* ■> second ;«thtt is, each pound •> '- suns chat strike will do so »'^ r .. u "'- liuos'vf times the working ot a./similar we.ght m an ;*M>"** l \\ '; The tremendous sped will «> the two suns past eaca ytacr. luc aU, actually meeting will by lett bvlnnd spinning and e.xplosr.ely hot. Hit * thousands of times more cnerg, tli.u will shear them and make «>* t'.i colliding parts. These colliding 1>- r.s from both the suits are uelcted i it» •"». and volatilised, tins w the Third Bo I>. At birth it is millions ot cegrees n»i and under millions.i>f atmospheres ot pressure. At first the Mazing l>yii»irr will expand a million-miles an h»ur. Wc will leave the_two torn suns Hying from each other, for the expauUiug middle body will cat. I. them «y aii«« enclose them in its outer suell ot Our third body is rotating and expanding; it is also sorting its > l:nirntary atoms. The_ lightest »no • v " 1 ,K ' moving many ttn.ea as - I;;m. as> l' l ' ; heav- ones, so tli. y vviii run ;<»i..> ■""' form onter la;,er.> i.i u..'i.< ,_ .. an. lielium; tue oiu-.i a nuir n...... .- •••>< travel slower and toiui lutie. y- ■■>•!•»■• whilst the heaiy atoms will .. i.... •■■

a. great brignt miick-ls l«i:ii w»«i »^r ; gate into oust particlih, u h.> ;i <• •••

will become a litfLuuiu. sa.h.ii, i.i. it ■■ big. enough a star i-li.-sl i. iiirii, at ••. countless ages,, a iit.-btilui:* suit uiib myriad planets revolving nnuin.i hiai. "Die two torn suns art* auo set rotating, only very slowly. They spin roi.im ■ " perhaps about a year. Where tiny were nit they entangle miihc of the other sun, anti they arc: ent so deep that they expose their hot interior, so the wounds are huge blazing lakes. Therefore ,as the suns revolve they .form a pair of variable . stars. Before "the collision they pulled one another and pot up speed; now, having passed, they null one another and lose speed. But the new born brilliant third body also pulls them, and will often pull so hard as to prevent the two escaping one another's attraction, and they be-€-oxne double- stars. Some astronomers have thonght double stars wedded by collision would, collide again, but papers have been published to " show •they have overlooked factors, and that stars,so connected arc not likely to collide again. Thus it will be seen that a grazing impact of suns will be partial, and will produce a third body and two wounded rotating suns: So this one event will certainly produce a temporary star. It may spread space with light molecules, which will go to lay the foundation of T>ew- cosmic: systems. It" may form other heavier cas shells that are called planetary nebulae. It will have a meteoric nucleus, which if small niaybeconie a comet, if large a star cluster. The two torn suns are the wonder stars of the Leavens, being at first in pairs, as this recent research has shown them to be. "Whilst the double stars should at first be variable, and recent research has shown that some donble stars have each of the pair variable, and very many have one still variable, both double and variable starsare very often surrounded bv the haze of dusfc swarms or the uas of nebulae. This then is the first stage of our comriler stndy, a section complete in itself. TKeit we study deeper and deeper grazes of sons, and then all- kinds of impacts of nebulae and of star dusters;; and then ofr cosmic systems like the great Mapellanic Clouds, and as we continue this study the whole host of the heavens appear before our mental vision in all their beauty, their wonder and their majestv, and ultimatelv the endlpss cycle" of the Cosmos unfolds itself before our enchanted raze. The veil of the mystery of the Creation is lifted, and we are afforded a glimpse of the Eternal.