Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-30

enough to be understood by everyone
| though few are likely to try TO foiloV
| him in his figures. The beginning
with what is now accepted generaii,
under Newton's law of the attraction
of gravitatien that all the substance
of which the earth is made up average
out a weight f-2 times that of water
| If a half bushel measure Wer'
weighed and filled with water and ther
weighed again, the weight of the meas
ure itself subtracted from the tota
would give the net weight of the water
| Then if the water were poured out anc
| the measure filed with a half-bushe
! of the average matter of which the
aa.ta is ns:tdt. including the land ant
4 $50 fine ater, it would be IL times
the Q sat of the water unmixed with
unvth.a g else. Everything is compared
in lis WAY with water, except that
the weighing is done with the finest
4, machinery.
After samples of all the rocks on the
eartfls surface. or in reach of it have
been weighed separately, as they have
been during the last century, they are
averaged out, and it is found that their
weight is not IL times more than
| that OF NdleIs Dut ONLY hppt' . -
times and something over.
This being the case, there must be
something heavier than granite below
the heaviest rock. if that is granite.
| The metals are the only things heavier
than the rocks. They have all been
measured by water and their weights
decided. So the man who is deter
mined to go down below a rather thin
crust rock must be prepared to get IN
To the real core of the metallic earth.
According to this sort of arithmetic,
nearly the whole of it must be metallic.
Probably every metal known on the
surface is mixed together underneath,
hut with one metal so much more
abundant than all the rest together
that its weight will decide above that
of all the rest.
+ Before trying to decide by arithmetic
what this metal is, we are to go BACK
and find out all that is known from the
way the water on the surface moves
in tides of the ocean under the attrae-
ton of the sun and moon. Thls can
be shown in exact figures, as they be-
long to the same Flaw of gravity un-
der which the weights of everything
them all together compared to what
they weigh more or less than water.
After the way water moves in the
ocean has been set down. the next step
is to find how the earth itself moves
as shown by the seismosraph when an
earthquake is strong enough TO sehu
waves of motion around the surface OF
the globe and also through the earth
SO that we get first report OF great
earthquake in waves coming through
the earth, followed by second report
around the surface. Sound waves
through the earth move faster OF
slower according to the thickness III
the matter they move through. IL mas
been found that there is diHefehce
in the time of this movement after get
ting down from the surface certain
distance. It Is expected that When Il
great number of earthquakes are re-
corded by seismograph in diferent
narts of the world, the record VIII
show as while what Wiechert mas
worked out from his records. Tnat Is
that the whole central part OF ttie
earth gives such {. speed or waves
when an earthquake shock is coming
through it, to reach a seisniograph, as
would be given through substance
weighing as much as the heavier rec
ords.
r,hen the Wiechert theory makes a
close connection with all that Is reans
known on earth of what otner WORMS
are made Of In every case, wneie
matter from the sky has reacheu cie
earth in masses large enough 10 oe
tested. it has turned out to be a llrs.-
rate article of nickel iron nearly pure,
All the ..aerolites," or shooting stars,
which have body enough to reach the
earth before burning out an iron. Near
the CANYON Diayolo there is the deep
oct DENT, known in the eartn sar-
faea s,,ch as might have been proouc-
oh nv an immense meteor or come.
colIidinp with us. The fragments i"u''u
around the place are meteoric iron CIV
~ n nigh quality. AS this is the case,
tho Weichert theory works down peio"
the thin. shell and rock and loaHi GOV
erips the main body of the CLONE " ~,
conclusion that the inside OF tne n''ii
must be nearly all iron. The conc'us."i,
that it must be hot enough 10 DC NJ.
constantly melted had already "eei'
reached in many ways. II Is OIL ia,e-
ly that it has been charger III
idea that the heat of volcanoes 'i's
belong to pressure near the surface,
With an interior of iron anu o..s.
metals heated far past, the nie...'.
point this liquid mass would Dc h.p'
nearly as dense as solid by the ou.el
pressure and by other means. Inc we
ebert theory leaves US living on inc
outside of this hot iron ball, ~.
Those who do not like the ldea o.
living on hot iron globe need not take
1t, but they must go up against TUG
mathematics of iron as far as Wiecner'
has gone before they decide that th'
whole inside of the earth Is radium
or uranium as the parent OF radiuni.
That is another highclass theory, ane
it also is one of the very latest, out
is another story.
In the United States this new theor!
is being used already by a NUMBER
writer's who are not willing TO say "a
at once and plainly that they ar
| thinking of the earth as an iron pai'
When they write that the GLOBE ma
| an inner density greater than that
| STEEL" or that it's elasticity IS Una,
steel, they are borrowing from TINS the
DRY, whether they give it credit or no.
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