The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-12-10
4 NATURAL RIDDLE
Attraction Of Grayltation Is a
Mystery to SCience.
IT CONTROLS THE UNIVERSE.

fc-ts ana ke9uiate3 moono, FIahets'
Sons ard Stars Without Hisb's
deans OF Connection Is lnesnIicah'e.
,v., u,vs,arv ,f p,vstsrlo., IN s.ien,.
!. ,h., attraction ar ,,racila,ion -tliat
,u.y fo,co or po.p,e tbat Il thn most
.'.;,.,, ~ an d, .oon,. sf..,.o.
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.@it @rAiiifa1l" but 50 II u.s.
10 o"ie' To- see clearly wherein me
100 >t,,y ,ou>i>ls. loi q, tiifi consider
wtat sanitation appears to br 1t is
-rniiadoo tl.at gives tlio property OF
v..ot. to.e! bnl,., II lbar. wrfe no
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brought down oy siavitaIioh'
II Is SraYitation that brings can
non BAH eventually to The earth. no
matter how swiftly It may bc project.
pd pbe fostor II starts tho further Il
,-,ri en- b,, drri,,c ay.ry .ecnnd Of IT,,
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"'""9 'o"''u 'ue e''''"' "e'"V, 'uo
speed impaired 10 II ny 'he puNuer -
800 or 5000 feet per second Gravita-
tiOn acts Oh a moving body exactly as
we'll rs on one ut rest
1t is grayitatiun that curhs The mo-
ton OF tie moon and keeps il ia au
orbit Of which be earth is the active
focus.
So ton it is ssyitation tnat GOT.
pfny the earth ~ ID, motion around the
sui. psevpatW. it from living away
into bounGips, space Astronomy shows
That gnvitatiun acts between all the
plants 8nd ag the stars und controls
tbelr uciiuSs witli RESPECT 80 one au-
atllpr..
Now. t,a> mysterious force appears 10
b,. an attlac,iun. ~ il there were ,ias
r.. cords roupor,ing all The bodies IN
spacc and Tending 70 draw them ".
.pthcr rIt space. ~. f,r us opr senses
can 1stcct. Is etnp1 There AFRO no
elastic cord, aud me- phvslca couucc
lions vhateyor befv een astrop3,I.cal
lydlee ar between living stone or
cannon bgu and the earth How. then.
,an there pe nm attraction In order
,hnt n bodv NAV loo attracted ar ,,rnyvu
thero pnst be something fo draw il
Crayltation dos Tho trick. hut com
nIetolv hide. frnn MS the mechanism
t,,rongh which II nets We cor disco,
,r ~, mechanism M MI
wlcn an unfortunate aero,lauis
lrn,s fr,n, hi. p,acblne nj q height OF
tlmi,.apd feet ue begins nj oncc 10
I'M, t.varI f,e ,nrth ~, if Il ncr, IaiR
t,s I'm an, how can il rull n 81
ms n,ihf,r fo ppll With: You nav
nruh m dist sight nnt Il IS the air
vh.ch nais as EN- intorDseiart. tut
lAat Is NOT ga. because tbp oar;h lnd
i1oon puff Hpon one another with
o lirrc COUNT 70 the strength uf % -lcci
..,h,. -u,s i,iiee IN diameter I'm turc
+, lsoii,r and no other tancibic tlilnu ~
the open space eiGC00 mites across.
rl,at caps betw cen ,hc moon and tbc
earfa
llten tmvialian cNeris he ,aire
force nj every Instant No nnticr how
Bst thr faliu@ acronaut may be de
ecudiu- at any moment. eravitaton
nlu keep on adding speed aS fl he had
fast started DisreSanling the Sigh
rjaG3;icu produced by ihe leslsprcr
cd, tHe AIR. he win fall sixteen te"t "a
rI fr-t a7oud forty-eight feet i'm toe
.cDu'ui second. eighiY ieot ~ the l'iil"
-~r1j ganin@ thiHy-tWo Ieet ~ h'
velocity dur'n@ every second 2''e' the
hrt
From % bclght oi i."lo if't pe wiz.
c0lc down 'n about eight SECONDS. So1
viii 'lutp ihe ground viii" velocity
OF alnrt - iec' per seconJ- FROM
height cf lou)p feet he won'd Ia" 10
aooGt twenty -Uve seconds and NouH
strife with a velocity OF 400 'cel per
scoonl
The same Kind Of calculation cen
be applied TO the gravihtlon betweel
he earth and the moon. II the moon
were net IN motion across the d'rec'
ton OF the carth's pull 1t would fail
10 the Garth in about ZIG hours.
Now. to return TO the mystery. bow
is ihis force exouedt is It really n
pull, rs Il seems 10 be: The answer
10 which science is tending Is that in
toad ~ being a pull. gravitatiCn IS