Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-12
STORM-sCIENCE.
Electric Currents Cause the
Planets to Revoive.
REASON IN FAVOR OF THEORY.
The Nebular Theory Exploded and Super
seeded by the Electric Theory of
the Universe-The Planets
Were Once Comets.
Special to the Gazette.

| were once Sonetb'
Special to the Gazette.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. April 11.-My last let
| ter gave forecasts OF the storm due 10 cross
| the continent from the 10th 10 the Goth. On
the 2lst the weather will be very uncer-
tain, with probabilities of an extra storm
wave in the Rocky-Allegheny valley at that
| time and in the Eastern states about the
| 22d. The regular storm wave will be due
| to leave the Pacific coast about the 22d,
cross the Rocky-Allecheny valley from the
| sd 10 the 18th and reach the Eastern states
| about the 2Gth. This storm will be most
| severe on the Pacific coast and in the
| mountains east of it about the 22d. All this
period, 2Ist TO 10Th, will be very changeable
| weather, attended by high winds and sud
den changes OF temperature. Following
| these storm waves the weather will be cool
| for the time OF year, with frosts in the
| northern ATTITUDES.
WEATHER AND SCIENCE NOTES.
If the suns influence caused the planets
| to reyOlye on their axes they would all re-
voiye in one direction and the planes OF
! their equators would all extend in one direc-
| ton, but this not being the case is an argu-
meut in favor Of my theory that the cleo
| trio currents circulating through these
bodies cause them to revolve on their axes
| while the elements that revolve with the
sun cause them to revolve around the sun
| and the elements that revolve with the
! planets caused the secondary planets or
moons to revolve around their primaries.
| The sun is said to evolve on its axis in
twenty-five and on e-ihird days. l do not
J believe this to be correct. Astronomers
have arrived at this conclusion because the
spots on the sun revolye around the sun in
that tine, but believe the spots on the sun
are the same as our storms with their high
and low baroncters, and as our storms
move east more rapidly than the earth re-
wolves, II they Were viewed from neigh
boring planet, our earth would appear 10
reyolve in less than twenty-four hours, and
as the sun is certainly of the same nature IS
our earth it does not reVolve as rapidly as its
+ spots make it appear TO. The electric forces
/ of the sun are very great, and probably cause
/ its storms TO move with greater relative
velocity than do those of the earth.
| The electric belt around the sun over its
! equator necessarily turns with the sun and
near the sun has greater force than far
/ away from the sun and therefore the
/ planets nearest the sun would move with
| greater velocity than the outer planets.
/ Nearer the sun the elements are more dense
/ and farther from the sun they are retarded,
| move slower. This is the case with the
earth for near it the atmosphere moves
| with the revolution OF the earth while far
| up in the atmosphere the elements lose this
| motion. The astronomers claim that the
smoke from great volcanoes floats west
! ward after reaching great attitudes. If
! our moon was only ten miles from the earth
! il would revolve around the earth nearly as
fast as the earth revolves.
| The planets all move around the sun
! nearly over its equator, our earth passing
north and south of the suns equator only
| seven degrees, which is about an average
! Of all the planets, and therefore they are al
all times near the center of the electric
radiations over the suns equator, and
which reyolve with the sun. In accord
ance with these ideas. we find that
the planet nearest the sun, Mer-
curry, moves 1O5,330 miles an hour;
the next planet, Venus, T.05O miles
an hour; the next, being the earth,
moves G5,533 miles an hour; Mars, 5000;
Jupiter, 1914; Saturn, 21,221; Uranus,
1858, and Neptune, ll,95S. If the nebu-
lar theory theory was true, and if the
whole space now occupied by our solar
system was once occupied by fog-like
matter which revOlved in the direction the
planets now revolve, and which was caused
thus to revolve by the outer portions fall
ing toward the center, and this condensa-
ton toward the center causing rings to be
thrown OF forming the planets, the outer
planets would have originally had greater
velocity than the planets nearer the sun,
and as the elements surrounding the sun
must be more dense near II than at the
orbit of Neptune, the outer planets would
not meet with us much resistance as those
nearer the sun and therefore those farthest
from the sun, If the nebular theory be true,
ought to move with greater velocity than
the inner planets.
1t is also held by astronomers that the
outer planets were formed first, and are the
Oldest, but as the neoular theory dies this
IDEA must die with it. The electric theory
of the universe claims that all the planets :
are the result OF comets that have been
drawn to our sun, and whose constitutions
have enabled them to survive the severe Or /
deals they were compelled to pass through. I
Comets are evidently formed in choatic
space, as have argued in reference to the I
formation of atoms and molecules, and as
our solar system is constantly moving into I
new space never before occupied by it, ap- /
proaches the space where these comets ,
have been for millions of years, growing in ,
these fields of chaos, the suns attraction |
starts them toward it. One of these comets |
with 4 weak electric atmosphere will fall |
on the earth or sun, or some of the other ,
planets that may be in its path while NOV [
ing toward the sun, and when they strike ,
our atmosphere We call them shooting stars /
or meteors. But if this newly found body /
has a well developed electric organization. !
its electric atmosphere will not permit It to !
enter the atmosphere of any other well Or
ganized BODY, and therefore IL becomes q !
comet 1t Is well known that the orbits of /
comets are very much elongated, running
very near the sun, and receding to a great !
distance from it 1t is also known that at !
each revolution around the sun these orbits |
become more nearly round, therefore con- /
clude that the planets whose orbits ap- /
proach nearest to q circle are the Oldest, !
and therefore Venus IS the older and Mer-
curry the youngest planets.
w. T. Foster.
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