The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-01

principle of the persistence of energy to
mankind is not to be measured alone by
the explanation it gives of the cause of
universal gravitation, yet to the scientist
and scholar that will, perhaps, be the most
interesting, and will devote these papers
exclusively to a description of its action,
whereby all the planets of the solar system
are enabled to move as one unit through
space and at the same time have perfect
independent freedom of motion around the
sun, without being attracted by it or in
any way held in their orbit by any kind of
stress or any vibratory motion of an elastic
medium. To the mechanic and the in
ventor the knowledge of this great kinetic
principle will prove invaluable in hundreds
of useful inventions in the arts of life. To
the chemist it will open up the secret
cause of molecular combination. To the
physicist it will explain the cause of
electricity, magnetism. heat, light and
various other yet unknown energies !;
while to the biologist it will reveal the
proximate cause of life itself, and enable
him to produce living protoplasm from
chemically prepared albumen He will
only. have to direct those kinetic and po-
tential energies which God has so abund-
antly given to universal nature, ana the
resultant kinetic stability will produce the
living cell.
All that is required is intelligence and
energy, and no presto! you have life.
God has intelligence and energy to an
infinite amount, and he can produce an in
finite amount of life while man is limited
by his finite capacity, and even when he
knows how his production of life must be
a finite quantity.
J.. 7 100l II %hn f,,1
luton of aerial navigation to depend largely
on the principle of kinetic stability, which
enables US to overcome gravity by hori-
zontal motion, and although l fully ex-
pect to see passengers and the mails leave
San Francisco after sunrise and arrive in
Chicago before the same sun sets that day,
and all through the intelligent application
of this grand secret OF God in nature,
vet I find it to be the most difficult of all
tasks to convert the kinetic stability OF
faIsehood and error, in the scientific mind,
into the glorious potential of life and truth.
l suppose it is due to the growing belief
among scientists in general that, because
their method of acquiring knowledge is
more definite than others, therefore
their knowledge must be more certain.
While l fully acknowledge and respect their
reason, 1 don't think it should prevent
true scientist from testing by experiment
q new theory, and when the Technical
Society, which has not the apparatus neces-
sary for testing a fact, should ask the State
University which has the apparatus and all
the necessary talent for making an ex-
haustive experiment, don't think it looks
much like thirst for scientific knowledge on
the part of the university to simply pigeon
hole such an important request.
Is there any wonder that the Legislature
should keep reducing the appropriation
to such an institution, which does nothing
in the way of original research but appears
to have become a mere teaching school,
using the same old arguments to propa-
gate the same old errors?
When / called on the manager of the
San Francisco News Publishing Company
four months ago and told him had pub
lished a pamphlet on IA New Scientific
Discovery and wished him to distribute
it he seemed greatly astonished. He took
off, his spectacles and looked at me, then
wiped them very carefully and again
looked very earnestly at me.
why, sir" he said. lido you expect any
sale for book which is published here ?"
Certainly said, "what does it matter
whether a discovery is published in San
Francisco or anywhere else? That should
not in any way make the discovery of less
value"
"Oh,' he said, laughingly, 81 don't mean
that; but if you will call again in four
months 1 will tell you what 1 mean, and
you will not then look so surprised, and in
the meantime shall do my best to dis
tribute the book"
l called the other day as agreed, he
looked over his books and said, 1--WE have
done very well; much better than / ex-
pected. We have sold twenty-five copies
of your book. Now, you understand what
| meant by my establishment when you
called on me four months ago."
l acknowledged the lesson and asked for
an explanation of the cause.
"Well," he said, you that can discover
the cause of gravitation may be able to
find out that cause, too" But to me he
said it is simple fact that the people of
San Francisco will not buy book which
is printed and published in San Francisco,
and if the Bible had been first published
here we could not have sold ten copies in
ten years.
"Now," he said, take my advice, and
when you have another book to publish go
to London, have 1t printed there, and then
send me few thousand copies and they
will go like hot cakes"
/ thanked him for his advice and
thought to myself, "Well here is another
problem to solve before construct my fly
ing machine"
After this depression we will proceed to
demonstrate how kinetic stability acts in
producing orbital motion, and the poten-
tial of gravity.
We have already shown how kinetic
energy in the bicycle produces kinetic
stability.
Now, / hold that every body which has
kinetic energy has kinetic stability, and
that the kinetic stability increases and
diminishes in the same ratio as the kinetic
energy increases and diminishes. I also
hold that kinetic stability is not mere
passive resistance like inertia, but is an
elastic resistance which, when disturbed,
produces vibratory motion.
Take spinning-top and disturb it, then
notice how it osciliates. Take water
nozzle when the water is issuing under
high pressure, shake the nozzle and notice
how the particles of water describe beautiful
curves. Those are the curve of sines, and
nothing but elastic motions can produce
them on free body. Now it is the kinetic
stability of the particles of water issuing
from the nozzle which enables you to pro-
duce those curves.
To these might add scores of other IL
Illustrations to show how intelligent inter-
ference can cause kinetic stability to pro-
duce the phenomena of nature. The sci
entific world at present does not know
that kinetic stability is produced by kinetic
energy, nor do they know that kinetic
stability is reciprocating force. Hence,
| have in my pamphlet reduced these facts