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

ton became equal to the kinetic energy o.
direct motion. Then the Kinesao
| stability would be minimum, ana mas
on the surface of the earth would nave ~
weight or its stability would be SAID 70 70
neutral, and if the rotation was lncreaseu
beyond that limit then the stone or mass
would fly off on tangent, just as we saw
| IN the case OF the marble on the Wnlriins
table.
| The kinetic stability of mass which mas
klnetlc energy may, therefore, be sara 70
be the work required to turn the klnetlc
when the potential energy is nothing the
kinetic stability is equal to the k1netlc
energy and is maximum. But when the
potential energy is equal to the klnet!c
energy then the kinetic stability is mini.
mum. And as the whole energy is equal
to the sum OF the kinetic and potential
energies, and when they are equal to each
other each is equal to half of the whole
energy? So the kinetic energy plus the
kinetic stability is equal to the whole
energy. And from that it will be seen
that the kinetic stability is equal to the
kinetlc energy, and varies inversely as the
potential energy.
Now ii the kinetic stability be recipro-
eating in its action, as 1 have discovered it
to be, and have explained in my pamphlet,
then the reciprocating action, being elias
| tic, must have reacting or restoring COM
DOUGnU IOICe, duu we Will call That 1OrC0
the force Of restitution; and this force of
restitution is what we experience as the
force of gravity, and what Sir Isaac New
ton and all the scientific authorities at
present call the force of attraction
If the work spent in rotating the earth
had been equal to its kinetic stability
there would have been no force of resti-
tuition, and consequently piece of matter
at the earth's surface would have had no
weight but, owing to the rotstional
energy having fallen short of the kinetic
stability, the unearned increment of the
kinetic stability has force of restitution,
which causes a mass of any weight or size
to fall in vacuum with the same accelera-
ton, which varies with the rotational
energy on the earth's surface, and which
in this latitude will acquire in one second
falling from rest in a vacuum velocity
of 1922 feet per second approximately.
Now if the weight or force OF gravity OF
stone, or piece of matter on the earth's
surface, was really due to the attraction of
the earth's mass its weight could only be
reduced by reducing the quantity OF the
earth's mass, or by increasing its distance
from the earth's CENTER but Professors
Strlngham and Soule, or any professional
scientists, will tell you that If the earth
rotation was increased seventeen times
faster than it is at present, without any
change in the mass, mass OF iron
which at present weighs twenty tons
would then only weigh twenty pounds at
the earth's surface. The theory of kinetic
stability explains that, but Newton's the
DRY of attraction does not.
Mathematician who do not take kinetic
stability into account reckon as above,
that mass on the earth's surface would
require rotational velocity of about
$4,000 feet per second so that the mass
would lose its weight. But if we give a
mass like projectile an independent. free
motion, having kinetic energy in plane
at right angles to the force of gravity, it's
kinetic stability reduces its weight to
minimum long before it has acquired a
velocity of 20, 900 feet per second.
Under such motion the projectile, like
the living bicycle, acts very differently
from what it would do if it was moving
with the same velocity as a dead mass on
the earth's surface.
Now that the readers of THE CALL have
got the experimental explanation of this
great secret of nature, it only requires
study on their part to apply it either in
the mechanical arts, the animal kingdom
or The spiritual world. l have done my
part in pointing the way to new and
glorious realm of amazing wealth and
fertility, and, although from the top of
the mountain on which / stand can see it
in the distance, yet can hardly expect in
my lifetime to taste the delicious fruits of
that realm, far less to see its wonderful
resources fully developed.
In the next paper I will conclude the
subject, for the present, by pointing out a
few of the methods by which this impor-
tant truth can be established.
ROBERT STEVENSON.
2607 Fillmore street, San Francisco.