New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-20
THE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE.
THEORIES OF SCIENTIFIC MEN THAT ARE N

THEORIES OF SCIENTIFIC MEN THAT ARE NOT
FULLY ROUNDED OUT.
To me Edttor 2f The TrfoHne.
SIR: In Some thoughts concerning the past
and future OF system published in aftcent number Of
The Eclectic Maga.ine Prof Proctor suggests the proba
bity that the moon has passed through the gaseous
liquid solid and lfe-producng state, and has be-
come xhausted from the loss Of its heat that the earth
has passed through these stages far the esuppor
Ing, in which now is that Jupiter and Saturn are still
in earlier stage OF the process and that after all
the satellites and planets shall have passed through It,
the will take It's turn. The theory supposes OF
course that the gradually losing its motion with
its heat, will finally cOalesce with the earth, and the
other satellites with their planets and the planets with
the sum- and the with tho center round which he is
circng and on, until the galaxy shall have become
concentrated in dead cold Of natter, and
haps all galaxes concentrated together in the way
Now, it to me this assumes too much in one
respect and that s that after the shall have passed
from the to tho liquid and thence to the solid
and ifeproducng and supporting state, it will be able
to sustain that state by means OF its own heat
which q not the case with any OF it, planets or satellites
they all coneSscdy deriving their lifcproducing and
sustaining powers from the sum- the sun not having any
such foreign source from whence to derive It, Further
ii assumes limit to the galaxies OF worlds and finally
leaves them all in dead, cold mass and makes no pro-
vision for their expansion again by heat into the gaseous
prof wincheli in his popular geological work also
tains that the mechanism OF the universe Is slowly
evolutionary theory by assuming that this heat will be
collected again and applied TO the dissipation OF dead
matter In gaseous state through space. The trouble is,
he does explain attempt to, how the heat which
has radated presumably been lost in during
the cooling will be collected. Now to the doctrine
evout held b. Prof Eiske in his Cosic PhilOso-
phy II is necessary that reasonable provision be
found or made for the combustion OF the concentrated
dead matter and cannot be found as see in the impact
the concentrating masses, because they are not to
come into violent collision but will coalesce compare
lively gently; for instance, Jupiter, according To the
established rate of retardaton OF Enckes comet WV be
10000 million years in uniting its mass with the SUI, its
orbit all the time essenn until the junction made and
so with all the rest
Now any hypothesis theory. not OF the origin but nf
the condition of existence OF things ID worth little which
is not and complete and IL that
these eminent men would not seriously PROFOUND such
unless they had at least been able to make then con
sstent and complete in their minds. And my 09a'
writing this il to draw from them something 10 n~
they solve this difficulty, whether they ignore ~
they consider it insovable And will say that
ncv can hardly expect followers nay, the upholder-
the doctrine Of evolution cannot expect TO he widely
generally accepted unless they can clear up funds-
mental difficulty this seems to be to ask in
captous spirit but in absolute candor desiring light to
find rest INQUIRER
Sat- lake cir, April 25, 1875.