The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-01-01
PROFESSOR SAYS
SUN IS INHABITED


While not yet ready to state fully the
result of his discoveries concerning the
solar eleCtrO-magnetic relations be-
tween the sun and the other planets o.
The universe, a train of discoveries be-
ginning one year ago and which lyd
him last spring to declare the sun TO be
habitable, Alexander Young, the astro-
homer Of La Porte, Ind, willingly talks
about his work ana freely outlines the
scope of his intended announcements
Mr.. Young is extremely myoDic, and
to that visual defect he ascIIbes largely
his success as am observer of the sun:
others similarly afflicted have regarded
| themselves as barred from such long
range work, while it has with him
served only to incite greater effort ana
inspire the invention of new instru-
ments, and the solarscope which he de-
/ vtsed, coupled with his peculiar eyes,
has produc- d results astonishing to nlrn
and incredible to the greatest scientists
| Six months ago he stated his couclu-
sions as to the condition of the great
orb of day and the errors astronomers
have fallen into through installing it's
electrical reflection for the planet itself.
His theory that the sun is not a super
| heated terrestrial body at all, but a
! planet favored with a mild climate, a
| beautifully variegated surface and a be-
| nigh atmosphere capable of sustaining
high forms of life, and therefore, on the
| principle that nature permits no waste,
/ inhabited by race of gOdlike beings,
attracted wide interest and brought
/ him a tremendous correspondence; but
| he did not at that time elaborate his
| IDEAS of the sunspOts, now the subject
| of investigation at every observatory
Today he discussed the phase Of the
| general topic with a World correspou-
! dent. He said:
The sun is the Lords grand central
| dynamo station for the universe: other
| planets are the sub-statons, deriving
! their electrical energy from the solar
/ source of supply. Electricity is the life
| principle of all nature, and it streams
! from the sun through the infinite inter-
stellar and inter-planetary spaces, and
from planet to planet and back again
to the sun in constantly active cur
rents All heat and all light proceed
/ from these electric streams, for as they
! pass from atmosphere to atmosphere
and through spaces void, or almost
| void, of even the most ethereal gas they
meet with resistance Of varying intens-
! ity and in overcoming that resistance
! give off heat and light The atmos-
phere surrounding the sun reflects the
| light of the electrical currents passing
out from it, and we see that reflection
! through our own atmosphere, similarly
! lighted, and call it the sun. The same
| currents passing through our atmos-
| phere engender heat, and We call it the
suns heat"
| According to Professor lou.a, -.
/ heat, no light, ever passed from sun to
earth, except as we may conceive it as
| being stored up i'm an electric ray, to be
/ given out by the method Of transforma-
| tion described, by overcoming resist
ance. No human eye, even with the
most powerful aid to vision, mas ever
pierced the suns atmosphere and view
ed that glorious orb, save that of Alex
ander Young, projected by his solar
scope None but he has ever viewed
the spots on the sun. The sunspots
that astronomers see with their teles-
copes are tricks played upon the vision
by the weird effects of electrical redec-
tions on atmospheric phenomena occur
ring i'm or just beyond the .-.--..--y-.,
regions of the earth's protecting shield
Of gaseous fluid.
In other words the spots on the sun
are really denominations of nebulous
clouds just off the earth. Mr.. Young
has known this to be true since Octo-
Der II, 1902, ana he has demonstrated it
to himself by frequent subsequent OBJ
servations with his solarscope.
When the learned sSar-gaZer, peering
into the celestial spaces with his great
telescope, lights on a sunspot and inn
AGNES scenes Of Internal grandeur,
lighted by an inconceivably great light
ana heated by the connagration Of a
perpetually burning world infinitely
larger than the earth, he is merely look
ing at a mass of cirrus vapor floating
on whlrlng I'm a rarehed ether and
lighted up from the constant reflections
of fastening electrical currents, mill
lions of miles from Ola sol These va
porous masses gather gradually i'm that
altituduoUs region, where there is no
heat except as their slowly augmentug