The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-06-17
TEARING DOWN OLD WORLDS.
Young Stars Gather Up the Pieces to
Add to Themselves.

Every young star, such as our sun,
attracts and gathers to itself Quanti-
ties of impalpable cosmic dust which
it 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 md in
stead of gathering in new supplies dis
charges it's accumulations. In the end
the old star is utterly disentegrated
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 innumerable dark bodies
floating in space Some of these are
extinguished suns. Some of these are
dark worlds, having lost their vitalii-
ty, are on that account, slowly dis
solving. Having parted with their
light, heat and powers of attraction
they are no longer able to hold their
particles together. Hence they are
becoming smaller and smaller. The
meteoric stones which strike the
earth may be the heart, the final rem
nant of a great star Or sun. The dust
of the stars thus dissolved, in obed-
ience to some repellant force, retlres
far away from the old scenes, wan
dering darkling in the cold outer re-
eions were nebulae are formed. These
struggling particles of dust are dark
and cold beyond any degree possible
of conception by mortal 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.
DR.. See says: "The photographs al
ford durable and convincing illustra-
tions of the formation of whirlpool
nebulae by the automatic winding up
of TWO or more streams of cosmical
dust. Indeed, two such streams can
not meet or single stream settle to
equilibrium without giving rise to ro-
tation about center, and thus pro-
ducing a whirling vortex, which even
4ually leads to the development OF
cosmical system"
The behavior of star dust is not the
occasion of much difference of opinion
between Laplace of 100 years ago and
DR.. See of the present time. They dill
fer widely, however, on the processes
of world system formations. DR.. See
has made profound study of this
subject. 1t is well 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 off to the right and left of the
milky way as far as possible. DR.. See
says:
"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 may ask ourselves how dermacri-
tus, Anazagoras, Aristotle or any OF
the Greek natural phisolosphers
would have answered such ques-
ton, had they known that cosmical
dust is constantly expelled from the
stars by electric forces and by the
radiation-pressure of their light and
driven away from the milky way,
which they also knew to be composed
Of small stars too dense to be seen
individually. Can any one doubt that
the Athenian sages would have said
that the nebulae are formed of cosmi-
cal dust expelled from the stars and
are, therefore, located as far away
frola the, milky way as possible, be-
ing collected principally in its poles.
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