The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-02-21
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Groombridge 1880.

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There is a star called Groombridoa
1880. which is known to be ffviT7c
throt1chi snace AZ sun,ch q siistfI nfe si,ee3
that the affractioy,l of an fba il,1,f1;ss f,f
the universe car, ;pever. ston II !. Nev-
TOMS first law of motion ;s that sec boJv
once set in motion and acted on bv no
force will move forward in . s,rs;oht
line and with ! ifn;forInH velhc;tySI q for.
ever.n t5roons,ridoaef lss(, bod =
vb;rl, ~ COME. in ,at one mart Of ths
,r.i.rs ,he universe. and HAVING
lound Inc attraction OF ali the VAT
masses of suns. among whii!b otIY own is
but as a mote in the 1io ht. to he nrsefi-
cally "no force.,, sreedSs ON It's vav
with a velocity which. in Prof. Simon
three million veaT-s, carrv II havora an
extreme I limit to With tha ts1ssn,,. has tas
ever penetra.ed. - TRvT this n is Inaant
not merely that it Wilt pass bevond the
stars. for the stars MANY as tbav are
and at absolutely incalculable distances
as by far the greater number of them
are, are but handful. bAll of them are
within or close to the galaxy of which
the solar system forms a part. The
streak of light in the hea Sens whi. n we
call the Milky WAY appears as It does
only because the gaiactic region is a
circular disk. the diameter of which ;s
eight or ten times its thickness. The
sun with the earth is near the center of
this disk. SO that when we look toward
the circumference of it we see the stars
crowded together, while, when we LOOK
toward the flat side of it. they are COM
paratively few and scattered. The
Milky Way is what we see when our
ewes turn toward the circumference If
the earth were q transparent ball, q man
at its center would see the palaxy. with
the Milky Way "a a belt r1nnino conn
pletely around it. The star Groom
bridge 1880 is not only on its way mast
all these visible stars, but it will 20 be-
yond them, and pass among and
through the region OF ne ula by which
the disk is surrounded. for the nebula
in all probability are but collections of
glow ng gas-the substance of which.
according to generally received theo-
ry. suns and worlds are made.
No other star is known to astrooo-
mers which has proner motion 80 GREAT
as that which is bearing Groombr doe
1880 ON its wav thronoR IN finite snaSe
and which s not less than two hundred
miles per second. nor does science oive
any a. count of what produ ed il AS
has already been said, an application of
New on S first law of motion shows that
upon it the attraction of the whole nni-
verse of stars is absolutely sno force,
to it. The star is as if it had once
been set n motion to 90 on at a uni-
form rate of velocity forever. either
alone in space or from some other dis
taut "uniyersen of which nothing Ia
and nothing ever ,.an he known yysr,le
some other universe compared with
which our own is not even as a cloud of
dust. In S ch a M after OF this an orig
inal ir,ge;ns is out of the ouestion. IN
the starry heavens masses faI-thev
arr not driven: as the moon constantly
,alls towards the earth. so the planets
constantly fall towards the sun. In
other words, eravitation acts through
out tn universe wherever there smat-
ter it is subject to this law, and there
fore it is evident that tn great star,
wherever it came from and wherever it
is gong to. is doing its work in obedi-
ence to the law of attraction. A recent
speculation may give an indication of
what the giant star is on its way to ac-
complish, and th work is nothing
more nor less than the redistribution of
the matter of some other universe than
ours, which redistribution may have a
serious effect upon the universe of which
we are part and parcel. The effect
will be remote enough m time. and yet
1t is not y any means impossi lie that it
may be feltlong be ore the limit of years
has elapsed which Prof Newcomb has
assigned to the star for its disappear
ance from telescopic vision. Action
ana reacuon are equal and IN opposite
directions Ii Groomb bridge 1880 be
NOV ng towards some other great mass,
the other IS moving towards It, possibly
with equal and possibly with greater
velocity. and If the whole mass of the
heaven OF stars IN our galaxy cannot ar
rest the path OF the one it can hardly
have any effect upon the other. In
other words, our little universe need not
be considered atau as a factor in the
probe m.
The speculation which has Just been
sp ken of is founded On the Nebula
Theory. which grounded solely in
physics A result OF the theory is we'll
known to be that suns will clash with
suns, the heat resulting from the impact
being ufficient to dispere the matter
of which they consist through a space
nearly but not quite equal to that which
it occupied when the suns began to
form. The process of condensation
a body equal in mass to the sum of the