The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-02-01
-,-,~rtcTS NOW INTERESTED IN
NOW LONG CAN THE SUNS
HEAT BE MAINTAINED.

nd World Swathed in Wind
.ao sheet of Ice Swinging in Its
chit Around Sun Frozen to Its
Core People viii Stiffen and
r,eeze at Their Posts.
rho old conception of the last days
g tba earth pictured the end of the
-or15 as being a great and universal
Grafton, in which the flaming
~,oun+ains and the boiling seas would
brow ND great sheets of flame and
.,o,,1g of steam almost to the orbits
- the nearest stars. Forty centuries
- thought and 500 years of inves-
..cotion have taught the astronomer
+bo+ such an ending is unlikely. The
o,d will be slower, but none the
,oss sure. The last man will be
frozen stiff in some icy cavern near
+bo great equatorial line. The last
81 life will linger there until snuffed
opt nv a cold more intense than any
over conceived by Arctic explorers.
The sun is gradually growing cool
80 thousands of years may elapse
before its heat is lost and its radi-
oncA dimmed, but in the end its pow
or must pass away. The wheeling
nIanets will become dead globes
swinging along in darkened orbits,
4 bideous cold will creep down to-
ward the equator from the poles and
+ha seas will freeze to their utter
most depths. Men will die in the
fields from this terrible creeping,
blasting chill that will come out of
naked space as the suns light and
heat passes. The blazing deserts
will become wastes of snow, and
the palm and the jungle creeper in
the tropical forests will wither as
though they had been licked by vol
canic flames.
Prof. Nipher's Theory.
Prof. Francis E. Nipher of st. Lou
is condenses the final catastrophe to
a single paragraph in an article pub
Hshed a short time ago in the POpu-
lar Science Monthly. eve are de-
pendent" says Prof. Nipher ION
molecular vibrations for light and
heat, for the conditions that make
life possible The heat energy which
we receive from the sun will finally
fail. The sun will become cold. The
earth will freeze. Our atmosphere
will become liquid and finally solid.
The stars are also going through the
same history. Their heat is also be-
ing continually radiated into space.
The operation is like that of clock
which has been wound up and is
running down. There must have
been a beginning, and there will be
an end, in cold and universal night. :"
When the sun ceases to give out
heat when its surface loses its fam
ing brilliancy and begins to grow
dark, eternal night will begin 10
throw its shadows scrOsS the earth.
A great chill will creep into the at
mosphere. Unknown winds will wan
der up. and. down the valleys and
across the seas, creating cyclonic
whirls that will level forests and cit
les. All the old climatic conditions
will change with incredible swift
ness.
Within week" says the great
American astronomer, Newcomb, 1T
will be free ing cold, even at the
equator.
Men will stiffen and freeze at
their posts-in the corn fields, at
their work benches, in their shops
and even in the boiler room of ocean
vessels. All the world will be watch
ing the sun. Its surface will cool
and blacken as slowly cooling iron
cruStS IN a melting pot. The wave
OF brute terror will give way to a
sense of lethargy and drowsiness
mat will be swiftly followed by the
Stupor Of death from cold. The as
JTonomeTs watching with horror the
change in the sun S disk will be fro
zen stiff at their telescopes. A few
VI Jhe more resOuTceful and clever
1nHdoItantS may manage to keep the
spark of vitality in their bodies by
Ie,eating into deep caverns and
DuIdlng great fires but in the end
ICY myers of the terrible cold will
S 9TaFch them out and Stay them.
mere will be no hope of escape.
starvation would put an end to their
existence in any event 1t is esti-
lIo'eo that no more than a week
should elapse after the heat of the
Suu should fail until the ice would
oe forming on the tropical seas.
Ihe great telescopes that have
zee oseh constructed in recent years have
SHOWN the presence of myriads of