The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-08-18

gas can have a locus In quo In the trc-
mcndously heated interior. Of the earth.
passes ordinary comprehension.
DR. Bishop says In his first letter to
The star Of July 2Oth that when the
furmloss clouds of mctcoritcs originally
gathered out Of chaos into q solar sys-
tenn and into our globe. all the substan-
cos composing their frozen contents be-
came embedded together In the depths
of their combined masses
Surprising 1t to be true, that me-
teorites are the primordial stuff Of
the universe. and We're the means by
which our solar system was built up.
then let me ask. not is it probable. but
is II possible that any portion of those
frozen meteorites. gathering in out of
the profound still GOODNESS of the
depths of space, could any one, or any
part or portion of them, have retained
during all the vast untold cons that
must have elapsed since that stupen-
dous clashing together of CosmiC mat
ter | say could any portion of those
rushing worlds of meteortes have re-
tanned till these later times, any of the
original characteristic GOODNESS that
must have been theirs as they came
HURTING in to form new worlds Think
of the tremendous impacts of all those
bodies, and the immense consequent
development of heat, and again ask If
any solids, if any meteorites, could
have become embedded together in
the depths of their combined masses"
A thousand times no. Think of the
warning, fierce work amongst that ever
speeding host that must nave disnte-
grated every one of them, leaving in
their place nothing but incandescent
gases, in their turn to cool, condense
and form this system of sun and
planets.
'Tbara 1vas no escona fnr tho ,,,a+ao-
rites from humiliation as solid matter
HelmhOltz says, IF we calculate the
density of the mass of our planetary
system at the time when it was a
nebulous sphere which reached to the
path of the outermost planet we should
find that, it would require several mil
lions of cubic miles of such matter to
weigh a single grain" I think Mr..
Editor, it is pretty certain that none of
DR.. Bishops meteorites with their froz-
en- contents ever found home there, nor
We're the gaseous elements he speaks of
as in liquid or solid form, and included
in the magma, then present, for in all
that wOndrous, practically glowing
waste, chemical combinations were i'm
possible.
Hemholtz and Tyndall estimated
that the falling together of the nebu-
lous matter, of the extreme tenuity
before mentioned, to form our system,
would nave produced temperature of
twenty-eight millions degrees centri-
grade.
DIR. Bishop, however, tells us that
gases in liquid or solid form, are, to-
day occluded in the earth's interior.
How came they there in liquid or solid
form, for be it remembered, we know
only of such gaseous conditions char
acterized by extreme cold. or, as in the
case of carbon dioxide, by an almost
infinitely cold nature as compared
with the heated lavas of the earth's
interior. Nevertheless, the DIR. says,
gases in such condition. are there. In
his second letter he tells of his views
touching the formation of solid" gases,
but does not attempt to give an ac-
count of the modus operandi by which
those that are liquefied, found pres
ence in the earth's interior.
CACOETHES- SCRIBENDI.
Honolulu, August s, 1899