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have to make large grants of money
and fit out many a scientific expedition
in order to arrive at exact data for
use in the astronomy Of the future.
'AlI this I have pointed out, and 1
have even Ventured to suggest that
here is an opportunity for the brand
new and richly endowed University OF
Chicago to step forward and do yeo-
mans service to the cause of science.
There are innumerable facts tending
to show the strength of my position.
Here is just one, for example 1t is the
fact that all the parts of the sun do not
rotate at the same speed. The eQua-
tcrial portion makes a complete rota-
tiCn around the axis in about twenty
five days, whereas the portions near
the solar poles take tWenty-seven
(some astronomers say thirty-fve)
days to effect a complete revolution. L
need hardly say what an astounding
fact this is If you turn a, ball around
in your hand you see and know that
all parts Of it turn together. The
length of a complete day, from sunrise
to sunrise, is the same in the West In
dies as in Labrador. Yet when we
carefully watch the sun we notice that
the various parts do not all rotate in
unison. This is the standing puzzle
in astronomy, and the greatest as
tronomers have acknowledged their ut
ter inability to understand It. Turn
to the last edition of Prof c. A.
Young's noted book, The Sum- and
you will find him admitting the in
scrutability of the phenomenon:
Yet if the trammels of the Newton
ian system be loosened, and if my CEN
trifugal theory be considered, a plain
and simple explanation of the amazing
fact at once becomes apparent.
Nov, [ by no means show that the
NeWtonian doctrine is altogether
wrong" said DR.. Emmens in conclu-
sion. Il do not, for instance, contest
the existence of gravitation, either
here in this world of ours or in the
solar system and starry universe be-
yond. My contention is that the pre-
else law of gravitation as formulated
by Newton is erroneous and needs
modification. | show in what way l.
should be modified, and how. if such
mOdihcatiOn be acknowledged as cor
rect, corresponding changes must be
made in many of the Fundamental!
doctrines now adopted in all branches
Of physical science.
"A new order Of scientific thourht
VIII have to come into existence.
You may, perhaps, remember that on
the occasion of the jubilee celebration
last year in honor Of Lord Kelvin. the
great scientist himself showed his real
greatness by openly declaring his con-
scousness Of his own ignorance. He
stated that he knew no more of the
ether and it's relations to matter than
he had known fifty years ago. If. then
the acknowledged master mind Of phv-
seal science has made no progress in
a certain direction after fifty wears "a
thought, is 1t not time to try some other
Path? 0'''0A
his is what 1 have endeavored IN
impress upon my scientific brethren In
the memoir concerning which Won have
come to me.
pfead for new conception or mat
ter and energy; for co-ordinat;on of
gravity with the other physical foroes
that we know; for an abandonment -
the fantastic fetch which. under +ba
name OF either has long obstrl1cfe,1
the way to the temple Of philisophv
and for the adoption Of a scientific
method which shall do for our success
sors of the next century all. and mTcb
more, than men Of science of the gen
erations since Newton have gained nv
the majestic discoveries Of that Illus
trious teacher"