Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1910-01-21

One Of the Most Inter sting Prop
ositions Of Science.
WHAT lT AcT UALLY MEANS.
That the Sun, Planets and All Matter
4 Were Once asNast? Mass Of mean.
I: descent Gas All jumbled Together In
s an Enormous Chaotic Cloud.
Everybody has heard the phrase. the
nebula hypothesis, but what Is Il? NJ
In q few words this lii the meaning
OF nebulas othesis: )" That the sun,
the planets and all that is I'M them
Were at one time In the tnconceivably
remote past a vast mass OF chaotic, in
candescent gas all jumbled together In
an enormous nebula, or cloud.
To begin with. the first conception
that science has dared to make. how
ever, takes; US one step further back
Without mentioning the origin OF mat
Ter itself science conceiYes that inf the
beginning all matter was uniformly
distributed throughout, space ~ that
there were no. stars no planets, no
satellites, but that all space was allied
with the matter we now have divided
up into very fine particles some dis
lance apart. The consistency Of Stnch
material was perforce very thin in
deed much 4 more, rarefied than the
highest vacuum we can. obtain now by
air pumps. III From this state to the
nsbulous state, the theory has q miss
ing link, one that can only DO satisfied
BY supposing divine command, for 1t
assumes. In the words 'of Professor
Todd, that gradually zcenters OF at
traction formed and these centers pull.
I'd fin toward themselves yothersparti-
eles. Az a., result, of the inward TALL.
Ing Of matter toward these centers, the
collision Of its PARTICLES and their fric-
! ton upon each other the material
masses grew hotter and hotter. Nebu-
lac seeming to ill the entire heavens
were formed luminous fire mist, like
i the sdlmy objects still seen In the sky,
though vaster and exceedingly numer-
ous." This process Is supposed. to
have gone on for countless ages. faster
tn some regions than In others. Many
, million nebulae were formed; and set in
! rotation around their own axes. This
happily can be explained by science.
! Whenever particles are attracted sato-
, ward a center and are kept from fall
! ing directly to this center a whirlpool
/, Is formed, rotating In one direction.
: An example of this; though humble
/, and not exactly analogous is the rota-
ton Of water In a basin when the stop
per is pulled out of the bottom. Crawl
Ity attracts the water Immediately
| above the hole, which starts flowing
|: out, thus leaving a space to be filed.
!! The rest Of the water rushes In from
all sides to do this. and the whirlpool
| is the result. ~. :ss.f$ 5.:sSs3s.
I Now each of these whirling nebulae
became exceedingly hot. and %each
formed what Is known as a star OF
SIM, our sun being one. The earth
land other planets had mot, then come
| into separate existence, of course, as
J, It is supposed that they were thrown
on later from the sun. q L: Ii =, ss5.;
r Our sun In it's nebulous form and 70.
Eating swiftly on It's axis gradually
| flattened at its poles on account of
!, centrifugal motion. This phenomenon
| is entirely familiar to those who have
!, seen a ball of clay on agpotter's wheel
! gradually fiatten. The motion was SO
| swift and the mass so nebulous that
/ the sun to be took the shape Of q disk
As time went on the outer part be
came cool and somewhat rigid, while
1 the inner part continued Its cooling
and contracting. Thus the inner part
drew away from the outer, leaving a
ring OF matter whirling around on the
outside. This breaking of OF the ring
Is supposed to be ;hastened BY the 10.
i ability OF the outside to keep up the
| swift motion Of the central mass. both
ON account Of the slight cohesion and
Of the centrifugal force. But this par
$tfcular$ part Of the argument has moth:
ing to stand on IL the first law Of mo
t1on Is true. @5,4 = - IS
& In the successive stages Of the sums
contraction this process was repeated
over and over again. until several
rings were whirling around the central
orb. They would necessarily be In
the same plane. Now. these rings, moi
being uniform - mass 81 thickness.
would each grad ually accumulate 70,
ward the densest portion until they,
boo, would form q ball which would
4subseq uently f1atten, and # the sub.
stance com inued mel dubious and the ball
was large enough they would also g
sIough rings 8 INK; X; Ssa
OF course the rings the sun discard.
ed have become the planets, which, Sas
| required by the theory, are all very
nearly in the same plane The rings
that the planets formed have become
moons or satellites. 50 we are driven
10 conclude that ours sun AZ one time
allied All the space from his present
Epositlon to the fafthest planet 40 The