MAN STILL A BABE.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17385, 23 April 1928, Page 15

MAN STILL A BABE.

MYSTERIES OF UNIVERSE. TIIE SUN’S- lIORSE-POWER. Dr. J. 11. Jeans, the secretary of the Royal Society, lecturing before the Royal Society of Arts in London, related a romance of scientific discovery regarding the Immensities of the universe. The revelations he made were emphasised by contrasting them with the fact that although 10,000 generations of inen have walked the earth for 300,000 years, humanity, looked at oil the astronomical timescale, is only at the very beginning of its existence——a new-born babe with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood. Some of the remarkable statements Dr. Jeans made were: A million million years lienee, so far as we can foresee, the sun will still he much as now, and the earth will he revolving round it much as now. The year will be a little longer and the climate quite a lot colder, wltiie the rich accumulated stores of coal, oil, and forest will have long been burnt up: but there is no reason why our descendants should not still people the earth. Light and wireless signals, which are essentially the same thing and travel at the same rate, take a seventh Of a second lo travel round the world, but probably something like 100,000 million .years to travel round the universe. The sun, which is a. million times as bkg as the earth and 300,000 times as massive, proves to lie something less than a grain of sand on the seashore. It forms one of a family whose number has been estimated at 30,000 millions. The stars are perhaps from 5 to 10 millions of millions of years old. The sun has no source of replenishment. It must have weighed 360,000 million tons more yesterday than 10-day,, and by to-morrow will weigh 360,000 million tons less. Enough bottles of energy-elec-trons and protons—remain unbroken in the sum however, to provide light and heat for millions of millions of years to come. “It is a nipping and an eager air.’ - —Shakespeare. When the air “nip?” you are more than ever liable to contract a chill. Fortify yourself with a dose or two Baxter’s Lung Preserver, the proven remedy for over sixty years. Soothes inflamed bronchial passages and ea~es breathing. “Baxter’s” Is rich, red, and soothmp, and is, moreover, an excellent tonu Half-a-crown secures a generous ■ sized bottle at any chemist or store, or. better still, get the large, economic* pize at 4/6. Bachelor size 1/6.