The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-07-08
NEW THEORY OF RADluM.


| nature OF radium.
He advances the theory that radiun
has no useful energy within itself, ant
| therefore does not project rays OF
| force as commonly stated. He says
that its manifest energy comes from
without and Is due to swiftly moving
matter, in a state unlike itself. strik-
ing the radium with a dynamite wave
| of specific kind. But radium, on ac-
| count of its inertness and resisting
| quality to these waves, its molecular
| arrangement and pitch, retards these
| waves from passing freely through and
| to and fro in their selected paths,
| hence they rebound with equal force,
| but are transported into waves of a
| different pitch and become manifest
| to the brain of man as heat, light and
| force. Had these waves passed freely
| through the mass of radium as they
| do through other matter, there would
have been no manifestation of heat,
| light and force.
| The fact that the radium loses none
of its bulk or appreciable amount of
energy is thus explained.
Concerning radIum, he says:
There has been and is now much
interest manifested by all thinking
minds in reference to this wonderful
substance, with an intense desire to
know from whence comes it's great en-
ergy why does it not consume or
exhaust itself as do all other sub.
stances when in an active state?
1T seems to me that the answer or
solution to this problem should be hard
to find. 1t is claimed by leading scien-
lists, who have experimental with
radium, that its rays have a maximum
velocity of 100, 900 miles a second. That
this activity goes on spontaneously
and continuously without chemical ac-
ton and without any expenditure of
energy: in fact, without in the least
changing its nature or condition, here
in lies the great mystery.
an the st. Louis Republic, March
20, 1904. Prof Scarborough, of the State
Normal School, Warrensburg, Mo-,
says:
THAT he does not believe that the
law of conservation of energy, the fun
damental law in all physics, will be
overthrown.' Yet here is a substance
that manifests in such a way as to
destroy the very foundation of this
(so-calleD fundamental law. No
wonder great minds are staggered and
bewildered as they see their pet the
cries and fixed" laws disrupted and
torn asunder before their eyes.
THE trouble, in my opinion, is not
with the law, but mans erroneous con-
ception and Interpretation of the law.
For hundreds of years chemistry has
taught that the atom was the smallest
particle of matter. indivsible, fixed
or as Interchangeable as space. But now,
by reason of the manifestations of X
rays radium, etc. they are hating and
reviewing their fixed laws, for they
seem to have discovered that the atom
is n very large body, built up by ag-
gregations of thousands of minute par
ticles of matter, which they call ions
and electrons.'
''The early scientists made the mis-
take of assuming that they We're deal
ing, theoretically, with primary atoms
when, in fact, they were in touch only
with large groups, colonies of atoms,
formed into cells, molecules and higher
organized forms, manifesting in a sec
ondary or physical state.
II maintain that man today has not
come in touch, physically. with an atom,
or electron (so-called), but that he is
dealing with none else but large groups
of atoms which have resolved them
selves from primary into a second
airy state.
THE very 'electron' consists of par
ticles of matter finer yet, with physi-
cal attributes
Force, energy-what is it? few
scientists claim to begin with, that
there Is matter, spirit and force. That
matter is substance, that spirit and
force are immaterial; that matter and
spirit unite and that force moves the
two about-energiZes them.
"Now, 1 cannot conceive of spirit
and force being immaterial, for If there
be true, then they are naught else but
space, How, then, can such unite with
matter or energize the same?
Spirit (so-calledD is matter of
kind and force. Nothing more nor less
than matter moving swiftly to and fro
in nonresisting space-hence, manifest
ed by dynamic impact upon the brain
of man.
therefore, matter and motion-torce
no beginning had. nor can it cease to
be no more than can space. This be-
ing true, then the law of conservation
Of energy will never be overthrown,'
since 1t is not n law of itself, but the
result and effect of all matter in mo-
ton.
ELECTRICITY (so-called) is simply NUT
ter manifesting in specific waves; clso
light, heat. cold and wind are due to
specific waves of matter consequently
these fixed laws OF force and life
fixed by man-resolve themselves into
one-the law of mics-mechanical-
manifesting in countless ways.
1T is contended by many learned
men that substance of kind cannot
be changed into a substance of differ
ent kind. for they insist that the 20
odd elements are primary. 1t does not
seem to occur to them that physical
world like this could not consist OF
matter In primary state. That the
earth and an forms upon the same is
composed Of matter In a complex state,
that each substance consists of two or
more of the primary elements In a
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