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: e=new facts OF science.
FAerese.t II ne1 saarca was radium,
h7r " g@erf'l substance which has
The scientific world BY The ears.
Tie peculiar properties II radutm
1s.as ne e.sa1y q complete reconstfucz
49, n s-}eral we,LKnown theories
II ~ @a5t4E as il exists OH and
+ Ills plaaef ii ours. and the most
.o7rr.ins Results are promised by the
5ieutitic Greamers.
Hadir15. tEer say is tie evidence .
7ton.i5 .sz..4=:stea a new source q
aaergy. Hghr without heat. the Key
o tho t.ansmutat1o7 of substances the
evidence Of the disinteglation of mat
ze}. ire answer to the problem, What
Is electricity. -
And now it is asserted on high au-
rh0rity tat raCjium no1 only explains
many heretofore Mystifying astrono-
inical phenomena such as the aurora
b0reaiis. but proves that the earth IS
really a comet with at least three tails.
Such g statement would be highly
absurd We're it not for the credenee
giYen it in nigh quarters and for the
highly probable sequence of facts
that support the theory.
And L any doubt remains in the
mind ef the reader he or she is re-
erred to that last resort of the in
reaulous. ocular proof, for it is said
nat You may see these fiery streamers
which shoot out from the earth if you
.naw where to lcoN for them
Before it is possible to prove that
the earth is a comet it will be neces-
sarv to explain some Of the properties
of radium and what they reveal
Radium is a substance which shoots
off particles of itself constantly into
space.
The loss of weight to the substance
is SO slight that even after the lapse
of several million years the most dell-
aate balance would not be able to de-
tect it.
Yet countless millions of these par
ricles leave the radium salt constant
" and have been doing so since the
beginning of the world, which proves
for one thing that the particles are
ininitesmally small.
So small are they that the atom, the
cld-fashioned SMALLEST particle is
huge by comparison.
In fact. it is now believed that atoms
are composed of myriads of still small
er particles or corpuscles.
These corpuscles are in a state OF
.oa.;alt motion and go jumping about
through carroming here and there, as
though the atom We're as big as the
universe.
An atom is universe on small
scale. and the corpuscles move in II
much as the planets move through the
arger universe.
These cCrpuscles are negatively and
positively electrified, and the result
ing attraction is sufficient to keep the
atom intact. But sometimes the cor
puscles escape from the atom.
They are emitted when the objects
are struck by cathode rays; when the
negative electrode in the Crookes
tube is operated; they are emitted
from hot bodies, such as glowing met
ais: from cold metals under the in
huonce of ultraviolet light, and from
gil radioactive substances, such as
radium.
These corpuscles are 1000 times
mailer than the hydrogen atom, and
each, carrying a charge of negative
electricity. is discharged with incredl
nle velocity into space.
Professor ]. J. Thompson. one ol
tie highest authorities on the subject
Fl radio-aofiyity, said recently:
"As a very hot metal emits these cor
iuse les ii does not seem an impossi
a3e hypothesis that they are emitted
by that very hot body, the sun.
Thus, on this view, interplanetary
space is thronged with corpscular traf
&c. rapidly moving corpscules com