The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-10-11
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sIitIeas - VIII Get Apprb<I-
nfei5 ftie sitlliilcl of7E'ers. 81 MI
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ne moon e1rtii slot
ler dy ettid Professor edesaIIs
the celebrated director of
c ntain observatory. to tie
5t 4 very difficult matter,
us guorant of astronomy
30 IL would perhaps aTe
or eottt.5e. weight Is merely
Tor ut the exnct center
body Weighs nnthInS II
M sit varies as we approach tue
sitn point or recesie frous 4
prekFIpn as employed ia ey-
hen we buy II pound OF
ton or corIs siInDiy means
ii used on the surfaee of tie
4sa We I've thcre.
npposlnG you are DESTROYS OF
tie earth. how would you go
in Wei. e your education had
ncei efted and you were Ia conse-
nee fiorunt OF mathematics yon
Decide to cut up this terrestrial
OF onfB Ia blocks and bring each
Is Tie surface OF the earth and
weigh Il on an ordinary paiFsof
The operdtion would doubtless
fly and fatig1iug one and per-
many unscieufide landowners
object to yonr carrying on their
eFtV even though yOu explained
WINS merely as n temporary
But let us for arguments sake
TINT you succeeded.
having carried each block to
ace (and many Of them would,
have been brought from the
center of the earth) one Mt a
burning each to ITS proper place
6eE6r Weighing the next and hnvtnS
ped that each block weighed
I'm ih5n before your labors ended and
tie last block OF earth had been placed
"a he scales you would have dealt
ifl rItiber less than seven sextillions-
This Of course is tremendous num-
er q tons for any moving mass to
ellut there IS n time twice each
year hen the earth actually weighs
1othine at an In October last this
earth gradually began to lose weight
axe some huge giant dying Of a de-
cline EinfH at certain moment of time
It Welehed only an ounce, then half an
ounce E9eH;a quarter. and finally just
Tor about the hfty-thOusandth part OF
4 second, &C weighed absolutely nothing
tever-not even so much as soap
bubble which baby might blow away.
-
that the earth does not travel round
the sun IN an exact circle, 50 TINT the
distance from the sun IS always vary
iIie which. Of course alters the power
n atfi1ctIon OF, in other words, the
Sveifft But IN October and
A6rlI Of each year the earth is at an
es Il A eE7ge distance during the frae-
lion oe 4 second, at which time. as
have did before, It weighs nothing
How short space OF time this is may
De JUDGED from the fact that the earth
moves 1t the rate OF eighteen and a
half miles every second.
But to syeIgh the earth In the manner
suggested would be a very costly mat
ter and so It is found to be more sat
fsfactoEy 10 employ mathematics. when |
we elhnu arrive ut the same results, as
cunning of course that we are correct |
n our deductions And now as to the |
most -9sua1 means employed In weigh
ing the sun Having satisfied ourselves
IS to the true weight of the earth, we |
can that One. or Unity" That Is
the basis on which we work.
me next thing to do Is to mount to |
some elevation top of tower or
the roof of house Will answer our
purpose very welI-drop stone and
dnd out how far It VIII fan In one sec
6at OF time and what its exact rate OF
speed Win be at the end OF the first
econds
This 5 not SO easy as It sounds, but
10 can spare ourselves the fatigue OF /
aicfriatine, for after 300 years scien-
It's have by means OF the most deli
te Instruments arrived at the proved
e6nc.usion that at the end OF the first
,onSI the stone Will be ut distance
81 lfs.1 feet from the stnrting point and
win he them travelling ut the rate OF
20 2 feet Jer second. This 3D. is the
iiost. iiuuortunt factor In our eHlculn-
f!orsslIid has Ilcen called the astro-
Isoll .lsft sC7llsss. Tor lIH means OF 1t we
4 ~ 81 fao si-s.L-l universe.
! NoS,- lIesc SID Professor Lnrtlin.
fakfif. 4 paper from his desk, is IN ar
.fieie which / wrote some time ago on
the Weighing OF the sun, and do rot
think You Gun do better than make an
extract from 1t, which viii save me
much needless repetition, and he hand.
ed me the manuscript. from which
auote the following paragraphs:
every object in the celestial vault
seen by the eye OF man Is a falling
BODY. The enrth,is q body forever rail-
ing toward the sun ind the moon Tor.
ever toward the Garth. II we can hnd
with what speed tile earth is falling to-
ward the sun ut the end Of our exnct
.tecond a clew, Is obtained that win lead
through a maze Of figures to the mass
OF the sun. This must be true, for i
has been discovered that IL the earth
contained qundruple its present guam
.fity OF matter the stone would fall ut
the rate Of ga feet per second. And
Nsay4,try,s M eCoyetetl Tint II the stone he