The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08

you try to pull the marble away from the
steel ball and it will resist your pull,
as II 1t was attached to the steel ball by a
piece of elastic. When you pull it an
inch and let it go it goes back to the steel
ball. just the same as it would fall toward
the earth by the force of gravity; and its
resistance to you, when you pull it away
from the steel ball, is what we call the
body's weight, and the acceleration with
which 1t returns to the place you have
lifted it from is the measure of the force
of gravity on it, and that we have seen is
caused by the kinetic stability of the mar
BILE.
Now there IS the whole secret OF gravity,
and its law is:
aohere an the umiverse IS directly proportional
to ats kinetic energy, and inversely proper
toned to ats potential energy.
Let E=Total energy.
Let Ek=Kinetic energy.
Let Ep=Potential energy.
Then, E=Ek+Ep.
cause of weight on the earth's surface
Then, instead of saying the weight of a
piece OF matter is caused by the attraction
OF the earth to that piece, we would ex-
plain it thus:
Owing to the earth's orbital velocity its
kinetic energy is equal to M0- Elk, where
q is equal to its orbital velocity, and
M is its mass.
Now please note that this orbitant veloc.
ity is real living motion, such as bicycle
in motion has; not like the marble on
the whirling table in a lecture-room, nor
even like the marble on q whirling table
at rest on railroad car that is going at
full speed. And as the earth has real
living motion it has also kinetic energy,
and as it has kinetic energy it also has
klnetlc stability, similar to the living
bicycle, the live species, and the true
Christian. 1t cannot be upset by every
wind that blows, or shaken by every flea
that jumps. Now, my discovery shows
that the kinetic stability is equal to the
half of the whole energy or visviva of the
moving body. Hence the kinetic sta
bility is equal to the kinetic energy, equal
T., ma
TO
In this case the kinetic energy and kline
tic stability are that of the earth as an
independent free body moving in its orbit
and have to be considered relative to that
line of motion without any reference to
the celestial path of the solar system,
because relative to that path the earth has
the momentum of the suns actual motion,
but like bicycle in moving train it may
thermore, for a complete understanding of
the subject you should know that the SUBJ
stance, nebula, or fluid from which the
globular earth was formed was com posed
of atom, molecules and probably indie
pendent particles, each one of which had
kinetic energy and consequently kinetic
stability.
That tact is now scientifically estab-
lished by the most accurate and pains
taking observations of Professors Barnard
and Keller, the one in California, the
other in Pennsylvania. Now if globe
like the earth, whose every particle had
kinetic energy, be also given longitudinal
velocity as whole, and rotation at the
same time round its moving axis, then
such whirling mass would act very diff
ferently from 'whirling table. either in a
room or on moving train, because each
particle having kinetic stability. due to its
kinetic energy, would resist with living
or elastic force the centrifugal force due to
rotation.
Hence, instead of the mass flying from
the center like the marble when the mass
began to rotate, it would keep expanding
gradually under stress in the form of
pressure, until the potential energy of rota-