The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-01
Life on Other Worlds Must Be Much
the Same as on Ours, Declares Dis
tinguished French Scientist, Explaining
How Minute Life Germs Can Make, I'm
harmed, Prodigious Journeys Through
Coolest Space.

ces bear negative electrical charge. They
are going to come In contact with these cold
gaseous masses of rarifed molecules, contain
ing helium and hydrogen, called nebulae.
These nebulae contain II very small number OF
molecules; hence their low temperature When
the electrically charged particles reach them,
the former make the outside luminous. and
then these neoulae are visible to observers
the eartb.
The dust which is condensed into meteorites
becomes centres OF condensation for nebulae
Let dark body. such as the moon is to-day,
such the viii be later happen TO pene-
irate into such surroundings in the course OF
It's wandeTingH lasting myriads of centuries, il
VIII become still more easily 3 centre about
which nebulous matter would accumulate. While
1t becomes heated, the nucleus becomes incan-
descent. Will be born
Finally, let two dark suns collide in the In.
unity OF space and time; the violence of the
shock Is enough to volatize their matter: the
breaking OF their envelopes would release the
their cooled crusts. Like two gigantic shells
they explode" and the com pounds that their
centres contain, held under enormous pressures
yet free masses OF gas that escape IN spiral
spurts. Then the stages of which Laplace con.
ceved n begin to follow each other. Gener.
OF the nuclei that exist In the mids, OF the
neouous spheres surrounding them We have
watched the resurrection Of Il world
These collisions not Idle hypotheses We
witness them In the heavens each time that a
new star appears. 1t is a perpetual cycle that
re commences in this manner. cycle the mech
auisn VI WHICH Dcen pointed out for
hrst time by the brilliant genius Of Arrhenius
Such is, too briefly sumnla rzed the Swedish
PHYSICISTS principle OF the theory OF cosrnogony.
put he has not been content with explaining
the evolution OF "cosmic" matter
He has asked himself-and II Is this that
WIN interest the readers more especially-how
lfe could appear on world thus created He
has tried 10 find out whether living germs
having left a world where they found their
conditions of existence realized, can endure
the long journey through space and bring to
another world the germ of life which is in
themselves, thus becoming the starting point
oil series OF living beings brought slowly by
an evolution parallel TO that OF the planet tha.
sustalns them. TO gradually increasing degree,
OF perfection; in word. 10 higher" etates-to
man.
SFante Arrhenius answers this question by
Wnat Ia called the doctrine of pans penny, adapi.
Ing IL to the most recent advancement OF mod
ern physics Panspermy is not new; Richter
was the nrSt to advance It, about 1866 Later
II received the distinguished support OF tho IL
instrious English physicist, Lord Kelvin and IN
Germany Helmhoitz lent 1t the aid of his great
authority.
In It's first form, this doctrine assumed ,ho,
nleteorlteS fragments resulting from the col.
iision between two dark bodies of tho hcovens
come In contact with world and bring there
germs that the explosion has not had time IN
destroy: as, when one blows up n quarry with
dynamite certain pieces of rock may roll 10
thc bottom OF the mountain remaining GOV