Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-29
BRAKE THE EARTH
Magnetic Storms Are Robbing
Our Planet of Motion.
MAY STAND STILL SOME DAY

Then One Side Of tho World Will Be a
Desert Furnace, tho Other Black,
| Icy Waste, and Mankind Will Find
Itself In Cramped Quarters.
The world is slowing down in it's
daily rotation, and the days are get
ting longer. according to Professor
| Louis A. Bauer Of the Carnegie insti-
! tute. Washington. Magnetic storms
| are putting magnetic brake on the
earth, and if they continue to constrict
this brake, at the rate measured for.
the past ten years. in just $500 years
this good old earth will no longer he
| turning on it's axis. but will settle
down with one side in perpetual sun
| shine, blasted by withering heat, and
| the other side in endless darkness and
cold corresponding to the extreme fri
gidity Of interstel!ar space.
Observe it is not claimed that the
earth positively will cone to stand
| still in this year !221 \. D.. bat sim
ply that it is being subjected 20
! brake that may stop it by that time.
! Probably most scientists wouI argue
! that macnot.e storms VIII he less VIC
lea. in future. that otAo. forces will
integyen" ana that the stopping Of the
earth viii he postponed a great many
years beyond the date named.
Bat AZ SCIENTISTS will acQu,esce in
he statement th"t the earth is slow
ing down "aa sooner or later viii come
to stop.
When t!.- earth stops turning the
side toward the san will become over
] H. eli. ",'1 water viii cry up, and
| l..~tcr.ug deserts viii cover the sur
! face. Near the edge of the sunlit side
! there will be d temperate zone, where
| the sun will always be one hour high
or therea bouts. remaining at III" same
! height above the horizon year in and
year out. Every hour viii be like 6
o'clock in the morning o Il summer
| day. To this delightful region the
| worlds population will Gock.
A little removed from the hot area
will be the twilight zone. also quite
halntable. with the sun unendins at
! the horizon.
Though life in the torrid or hot
zone will be insupportabc, as rule.
! vet on the outer edges. where the sun
is but two or three hours high, people
may iFe in 4 temperature Of lG9 10
$50 de.rees hy means of various cool
ing contrivandes
On the dark. cold side of the earth
| all the water will be frozen solid.
| Even mercury will freeze in that aw-
! fui chill. 1t will be impossible for
human beings to penetrate more than
three or four hundred miles into the
dark and frigid zone, which will be
far more inaccessible than are now
the polar wastes.
The fact that all the water on the
cold side of the earth will be frozen
and all the water on the hot side dried
up and evaporated will tend to cause
a great disturbance Of the continents
and oceans of the globe. There must
be some sort of rearrangement, and
it would seem that the oceans would
tend to seek the habitable temperate
zone, which would then be the equa-
tors equivalent. Since the earth's
surface contains very much more wa
ter than land it Is extremely probable
| that the temperate zone will not con-
tain nearly enough land to satisfy the
population and that there will be con-
tinuous struggles for possession of
valuable soil 1t is even conceivable
] hof nf hn
may be driven to seek permanent
residences in sailing vessels or steam
craft, subsisting by fishing.
During the period when the earth's
days are lengthening perceptibly great
social changes must come about, due
to the difference in hours. When the
days get to be forty hours long it will
! surely be necessary to arrange for q
| period of rest and sleep in the middle
Of the day. .....
As the days lengthen untl they ex-
ceed q weeks duration all sorts Of COM
plications will ensue, and the days.
+, weeks and months will become hope
lessly mixed. Scientists agree that the
lunar month will lengthen as the day
lengthens. though the day will increase
the more rapidly. According to Pro
fessor Ernest w. Brown Of Haverford
college. who has given special atten-
ton to this subject. there will come a
time when the month and the day will
both be Of the same duration.
AS the earth's day gets longer and
longer the time will come when a day
y a. year long. Then there viii be no
more days and nights. no weeks and no
months. The earth always vim have
one side to the sun. and the moon WIN
| have one side to the earth. and the two
| will turn around the sun once year
as If fixed on a rigid bar. There win
be no more seasons on the earth-no
spring. summer. autumn or winter.
The weather Of the several seasons
can be experienced only by travelling
to and fro between the hot and cold
zones.