Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-26
EXPLAINS Law
OF GRADUATION
Epoch Making Discovery Is
Announced by Govern
ment Astronomer.
ISAAC NEWTON WRONG
After Thirty Years. Work, Prof. See
Declares That Present Law, ES.
tablished in 1856, Is incorrect
Electricity the Cause.

San Francisco, Cali, April "a
Professor T. j. J. See, government
astronomer at Mare Island, today an.
nounced his discovery that gravitation
is caused byy electricity. He has up
set Newtons law, he said, and shows
that gravitation is transmitted with
the velocity of light, $4,000 miles pei
second.
For thirty years Professor See has
worker on the problems of light and
gravitaton. Able, impartial and ex-
perienced men of science, he said to-
day, assure him that the way is now
opened for more important develop
ment than any which have occurred
in the physical science for two cen
turtles. 1t he lives the work will oc-
cupy his attention for at least ten
years to come.
So epoch making does he consider
his discoveries that he sent long
cablegrams on the subject to Lord
Maleigh, head of the Royal Society of
London, on April and April IA. He
also telegraphed his discoveries to
the Navy Department in Washington
for transmission to President Wilson.
The discoveries are made public
today coincident with. the discussion
of the nature of gravitation before the
American Philosophical society at the
annual general meeting in Philadel-
phia
Old Law Upset
Wy nf
was established by Sir Isaac Newton
knowledge of tha heavenly motions
for over two centuries. Newton him
self repeatedly declared during his
life time that whilst he had formulat-
ed the law of attraction and explain
ed it's application to the Sun and
planets, the Earth and the Moon, he
did not know the cause of gravitatfol.
"Hitherto | have not been able to dis
cover the cause of gravitation from
phenomena, and l frame no hypoth-
eses" said Newton; and he added,
"but for us it is enough that gravi-
tation does really exist, and act ac-
cordingly to the laws we have ex-
planned, and abundantly serves to &C
bodies and of our Sea-"
Professor Sees announcement is
that Newton's law of attraction is
not strictly correct, except for bodies
revolving in circular orbits, and thus
experiencing no relative change of
distance; but that the true law of
Nature is what is known as Weber's
electrodynamic law, which will ap-
ply to bodies revolving orbits of
any shape. Gravitation comes to the
Earth from the Sun in about eight
minutes.
Hitherto astronomers have not
understood the nature of gravitation
and nothing has been known about
its velocity of propagation. Laplace
tried to investigate the velocity of
TRANSMISSION over century ago, and
reached the conclusion that velocity
was at least so million times greater
than that of light. On account of the
high authority of Laplace in Astron-
omy, it was a long time before any,
one attempted to further investigate
the nature and velocity of gravitation.
But for some years it has been known
that method of calculation employed
by Laplace was faulty; and a good
many would have believed the veloci-
ty of gravitation similar to that of
light, if they could have discovered
any mechanical basis for such a
story.
Something About Electricity.
Recently Professor See was able to
show that all electric currents carry
solid matter with the electricity; in
fact electricity cannot be separated
from matter. and an electric current
as it runs along wire curls around
it in corkscrew fashion, and in this
helical motion throws off at every
step millions of particles of solid mat
ter moving with the velocity of light.
These solid particles are charged
with electricity, and go right through
the insulation of the wire, the cloth
ing and bodies of men and animals,
as in case of the emission of the X
ray apparatus.
The particles of metal carried away,
as the current revolves round the
wire have mass. and when expelled
and driven away into space with the
velocity of light there is an equal re-
action or "kick back" and often times
the "kick back" is so strong as to
twist up the wire. Electricians do
not seem to have understood either
the twisting of wire by an escaping
current or why it is so destructive
to life, and so powerful mechanically.
After careful examination of the
problem Professor See claims that it
is all because of the small amount Of
solid matter carried in the current.
with the enormous velocity of light
the energy being as the square of
the velocity, and thus enormous ev-
en- for very small masses.