Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-06-10
aNisre,lantaus Rmdina
TEARING DOWN OLD WORLDS
Young Stars Gather Up the Pieces to
Add to Themselves.

Add to Themselves.
Every young star, such as our sun,
attracts and gathers to itself quanti-
ties Of impalpable cosndc dust which 1t
encounters on its journey through
space. Therefore every youthful hea-
venly body is increasing in size. But
on the other hand every old and worn
out star reverses the process and In
stead of gathering in new supplies dis
charges its accumulations. In the end
the old star Is utterly disintegrated
and dissolved back into primeval dust
which reassembles somewhere on the
outskirts Of space where a new star is
organized. This process of tearing
down old worlds and rebuilding new
ones goes on perpetually. Some Of the
forces which nature employs for this
work are light, electric currents and
gravitation.
There are innumerabie dark bodies
floating in space. Some OF these are
extinguished suns. Perhaps these cold,
dark worlds, having lost their vitality.
are, on that account, slowly dissolving.
Having parted with their light, heat
and powers of attraction they are no
longer able to hold their particles to-
getfier. Hence they are becoming
smaller and smaller. The meteoric
stones which strike the earth may be
the heart, the final remnant Of a great
star or sun. The dust of the stars
thus dissolved, in obedience to some
repellent force, retires far away from
the old scenes, wandering darkling In
the cold outer regions were nebulae
are formed. These struggling particles
of dust are dark and cold beyond any
degree possible Of conception by NOR
tai and finite minds. Not until they
begin to strike against each other Is
there any light Friction creates both
light and heat. These particles form
into swarms and when two swarms
come into conflict they unite In spiral
motion.
DIR. See says: "The photographs af-
ford durable and convincing illustra-
tions of the formation of whirlpool
nbulae by the automatic winding up
of two or more streams OF cosmical
dust. Indeed, two such streams cannot
meet or a single stream settle to
equilibrium without giving rise to ro-
tation about a center, and thus pro-
ducing whirling ovrtex, which even
tually leads to the development of a
cosmical system"
The behavior Of star dust Is not the
occasion Of much difference Of opinion
between Lap!ace Of 100 years ago and
Dr. See of the present time. They DIFF
fer widely, however, Oh the processes
of world system formations. DR.. See
has made a profound study Of this
subject 1t is we'll known among as
tronomers that all the stars we behold
at night and our sun, which is one Of
them, belong to the milky way and
are integral parts of it. The nebulae
are of to the right and left OF the
Milky Way as far as possible. DR.. See
says: I'd n +
THAT this extraordinary distribu-
ton Of the nebulae as far as possible
from the stars Of the Milky Way has
some deep physical significance can
scarcely be doubted. What, then, Is
the meaning Of the observed distribu-
ton? To answer this question in the
simplest and most unbiased manner
we max ask ourselves how Dermacri-
tus, Anazagoras, Aristotle or any OF
the Greek natural philosophers would
have answered such a question, had
they known that cosmical dust Is con-
stantly expelled from the stars by
electric forces and by the radiation
pressure of their ligb and driven
away from the Milky Way, which they
also knew to be composed Of small
stars too dense to be seen Individual
ly. Can any one doubt that the Athen-
ian sages would have said that the
nebulae are formed Of cosmical dust
expelled from the stars and are, there
fore, located as far sway from the
Milky Way as possible, being collected
principally in its poles.-Kansas City
Star.