The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-07-08
NEW THEORY OF RADIUM.

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markable proposition concerning the
nature of radium.
He advances the theory that radiun
has no useful energy within itself, and
therefore does not project rays OF
force as commonly stated. He says
that it's 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 a specific kind. But radiun1, on &C
! 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 appreciate 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 its great en-
ergy. Why does it not consume or
exhaust itself as do all other sub
stances when in an active state?
solution to this problem should be hard
to find. 1t is claimed by leading scien-
lists, who have experimental with
radium, that it's 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.
I'm the ST. Louis Republic, March
20, 1904, Prof. Scarborough, of the State
Normal School. warrensburg. Mo-,
says:
Z" That he does not believe that the
law of conservation of energy, the fun
damental law in all physics, will be
overthrow. 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, indivisible. 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 a very large body, built up by ag-
gregations of thousands of minute par
ticles of matter, which they call ions
and 'electrons.'
1.-THE early scientists made the mis-
take of assuming that they were deal
ing, theoretically, with primary atoms,
when, in fact, they We're 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.
st 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 a 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? A few
i 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.
Nov, I 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-called) is matter of a
kind and force. Nothing more nor less
! than matter moving swiftly to and fro