The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1914-02-14
OUR GLOBES HEAT
On Time, Science figures, II Win
! Melt the Planet.
THE PART RADIUM MAY PLAY.
This Mysterious Eternuus. According 80
eorns Theorists, 10 Apt 10 Be she Pc
asus Factor IN Bringing Our wn'ia
90 Ias p-upheSiex Fiory End.

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No man expects tu see the end OF the
wuro arrive IN his duF amy more thun
he expects II he is u good henlth a.
flfe fnmarruv Vet there a. wide
sprend and perhaps universal helei
that the eufTh Is np more immortal
thar man. wily its term uf existence h.
almost Infinitely long cnnpured With
hAs.
Ecienue gives unuuesuinnuhie support
90 this view. and every new discovery
seems 10 make more ccrtniu the cuu
cinnion thHt our worlo Cguuui lust fni'
ever
anf there ure two opposite theories
as 70 the manner IN which the earth ns
fhe abode uf life viii come 10 an end
One assumes that its destruction viii
he by heat md the other thui II viii he
hy cold The discovery uf the nlystcrl
out substance rndium which pnssesses
tho property Of continually giving ufi
heat. has Impaired renewed impetus 10
the frFt ~ these theories. which. Il
muy he remurked us matter ~ cur5
oeity. is IN Rrcord with the Blhle prWh
ecies.
~T'he hsu vers shull rpll up az scroll
and the earth shall dissolve with fer
vent heHt'
A most onlinoas account 81 the puI1
that iridium NAV Iiluy IN the uitimG1e
destruction ~ the earth il given in
boob hy Professor J Jolly. entitled
-Rndioactivity and Geology
The argument un which the assumP
tion that iridium or It's mother eie
merf" uranium. may finally bring tht
world 10 a fiery end Is hused GU the
Acf that particle ~ rudium keeps
itself continually tr some inner I1'uc
ess al a temperature nearly degrees
above TINT uf its surroundings In an
hour the rnsiuu euits enough heat C.
raise Its own weight of wafer from The
freezing 70 the boiling point aud this
ufure us heat Is no VAST thuI Il single
neon of rndium viii continue 10 give II
forth NJ an uuvnryfnE rate for uboui
srqo Years
II there were only certniu quantity
af radium In the eHrth which could not
ke renewed ther we might assume thai
NJ the END uf two ny three thousand
years this source Of heat would be sz-
hauEted
But rudium itself upI.enrs 10 be- con.
etnunTy produced from uruuiuIu. which
as M incoulpnrnhly more abundant sub.
stance So we conclude that the eurth
uny have been heuted internally 10y
renewed supplies uf iridium for untold
millions O. yenrE nrid viii continue 70
be thus hentsd for millions ~ veHrz %
come
Nov. following a Hne uf reasoning
which would he too long O. enter upon
hare Professor Joly shows tiuf n ut
the present time ebe uucieus of the
earth contains a. much ms one Eve
hunAreo- Thousand -mIIluuth 81 Erum
cf iridium for every gram q ordinary
matter then It's rsnparnturs must be
r1stng at such rate TINT in nbouf
lo00oo. 900 years the earth viii he Ell
ctrely melted inside
We DO not know whether there IL 30
much radiuru ns that inside the earth.
but from w-hnt we observe uu its suT
face we conclude that there very weli
nry be II there is more then the
mating VII be accomplished sooner.
II there is less I; viii take louEer. But
the quantity would have To he very
nnch less thnn II probably iE IL order
that the hest prDsnced c1uid continue
% be raointed away without disas
r-Ons rise in the temperature % the
globe
The snme reasoning carried further
leads 70 the conclusion thu1 the earth
mnr have been alternately melted nud
eonlss nT Epre-fl times IL the INST