Kinetol.

Progress, Volume III, Issue 6, 1 April 1908, Page 188

Kinetol.

New ideas to be clearly told need new words, and in this study many new words are wanted, but one is imperative — " Kinetol." It means the energy of a unit mass. It means also how high a certain speed will carry either a shot or cannonball ; it means the onward working power of each pound weight of say, an express train : or say of each ounce of a Krupp shell. Before suns collide they have been falling towards each other and getting up speed for hundreds of years In their final velocity every particle has a " kinetol " several million times that of an express train. This tremendous tearing speed is stopped suddenly in the colliding parts and is converted into a motion of molecules — that is, into heat. So the new body is welded, fused, and made into gas ten thousand times as hot as our hottest furnace, while a pressure of many

millions of atmospheres tends to blow the glowing body into its separate atoms. Thus by a tearing blow, in about an hour a new star is born. The explosive force expands it, and the giant bonfire swells out its diameter at a speed of millions of miles an hour. This was the story of Tycho Brahe's star. It is also the story of " Nova Persei," the new star of the new century, that sudden apparition that lit up the dark nights of our Northern Hemisphere a few years ago.