Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-03-02
Tue END or A WORLD.


II b. q favoti,o idea with % certain
clsss OF modern philosophers that tho
orcatlve.pr0ccssus wherobylihe universe
has attained iis present forms arc al.
ways slOw iu thuir operations. Be-
tween the Time when our planetary
system existed o. no5uln, an i'm.
mous8 cloud in space, ami tbo day Of
the birth 0i1ur earth muat necessarily,
they reason, have elapsed millions aud
millions Of ages, aud millions more
were required to cool the young world
and M kc 10 a haUitail1n for living or.
ganlsmH. They seem TO argue from the
supp sIilou that there nro no
natural laws except those discovered
by man aud that from these there ore
no exceptions. That the iunllmunal
principles underlying this mole Of
reasoning are wrong has been Illus.
trticl recently by a mIst Interesting
Astronomical observation, an account
% which was published in the forum
by Edward s. Holden Of tho Lick 90.
ssryntliy.
q now star was discovered by an
amateur astronomer he Elinburs Jan.
-, 1902. A. som a, the announce.
mont was made, telosc3pic photographs
" the part o. tho sky whore tho
heavenly body appeared were studied
Tor the purpose Of learning IL fret
appearance. On a picture tiken Do.
ocmbsf 5, 1891, no trace Of Do could be-
found, tu, on another, dated tho 10Th
Of the same month, 10 appeared az
star Of tho sixth magnitude. In two
days the luminous boiy ms, therefore
have Increased nj lcas. thrto degrees,
which means that H. Hight was ak.
teen times greater than two days bc.
fore. AZ tho oni Of the nr,i week OF
March % could b, seen with the nakcl
cye, bat at tue cuI Of that month /.
wa too dim 10 boz pho.3grApls an : on
April 27ih, 1892, % papri out Of the
range Of the telescope, Ga An.
gust i1,h II was again found, but
40 longer rs a Hlr but q
nobua. II vas no llBgor q glowing
sun with system Of worlds revolving
rouudili II was a gaseous mas, a cloud
Of atoms!
To the question, whit hal takCn
placer science answers, that q whole
world had pousnsL Il had bson
crushed and burn. o dust with an IT,
contents 10 le, than year, Ia the
period from December 8, 1891, 10 Al.
gust ~. is02. la this moment Of tins,
brief when applied 10 tho events o, q
world, tho terrible c,lailr1phchai taken
place. The history OF worli was IN.
lsheI. ltpefishvd before our eyes. That
T., u was changed iut3 material OF
which new world may DO made, by
concentration OF the atoms aul thulr
arrangement ac'1riing 90 the plans Of
the Almighty C5nilruc.of Of the uni.
verse.
Tho explanation Of the wonderful
Ihenomonon IL exceedingly Interest.
Ing aud cannot fail 10 lead the thought.
iul 10 contemplate tho possible fate Of
our own part OF tho universe. 10
shows that the would itself IL subject 10
eyontualitles ani that tho end may
come withou; that pr5o0Is OF evolution
%, which some have dreamt. The
astronomers toll us that in space
exist voritablo wrecks Of worlds us
dangerous ~ tooks anu reefs IN the
sea 10 tbs ship, Thcy are OF two
kinds. SONS arc cid ami dark plane.
tary sysiems, stll moving In thoir reg.
ulaf orbits. O,hgri consist OF broken
fragments, immenso clouds VI mstoom,
swimminy about Ia space. II ~ sup.
posed that the star REFERRED 10 came too
near such an extinct worl /. From D..
combrr ull February tho two sailed 10.
getber and tho violent revolutions
which resulted In the formation % a
uobula took place. There was perhaps
no actual collision Of tho cold
bodies OF the two systems. The
TOO near approach OF two worlds,
whereby tho laws Of gravlIatiou arc
disturbed AMI the equilibrium De.
srJyed, Is enough 20 cause the terrible
destruction, The fate that bo,ell this
star may await our owu tul with i,s
planets and satellites ami 10 is en-.
/ phaaeally true that SCOT tina. day and
hour Enowe.h no man" Tor tho simple
reason that concerning tho move.
meats OF these cxunct worlds
science ha, us yet no Ger.
taiu calculations But % tits possible
that whole planetary system can lu
cine mrlo lwlukliug OF ancyc bo trans.
formed into a cloud Of atoms, a lamin.
Gus urbulu, may 40 mo-. reasonably
h1il that under certain conditions
ugbula may ur condensed and a world
formed iu loss t.me than tho countless