Omaha daily bee., 1914-08-04
Science Problems

AT least MaRians or Adept Magioians are
now found IN Ceylon. india Persia, Thi-
bet. China, Japan and In Europe. The
Asiatic namo In remote ages was Magi
while tho Egyptian name was Hormetc
our common name Is Adept because
they are 80 very expert In sleight OF hand
or deception, their motions being more
rapid than one-ninth Of a second, or limit
OF the human eve.
Thus they can do almost any seeming
hnpossibility before ones very eyes, and
the onlooker will be completely deceived.
There Ia society now. and these are
scattered over the world They can thor
oughly deceive anybody None exceed
! tie Chinese they having had the expert
ence handed down for thousands or
/ years, and all feats performed are highly
scientific
! O. N"wnl YOU kindly give us a brief
article on what Is known as automatic
writingg'-O. W. w. Boston, Mass
\. A hundred brief articles would be
required Automatic writing Is where
ones hand begins suddenly TO write and
cannot stop until the writing IL finished
This is now either increasing all over the
world faster than at any period in mod
ern times, or we hear OF more. IL would
require quite a good publishing house TO
print all.
have a curious collection OF these
most wonderful writings that have been
sent TO me by the writer's. Science can
not now explain. nor never can unless It
discovers the law.
Q. Please tell me where l can find the
hest conclusions scientists have reached
regarding the nature OF Mind2'-V, u.
Davis. Mountain View. Cal.
A. Scientists are In total Ignorance as
to the nature OF Mind.
Q"-How measure the distance between
the earth and the stars and planets?-7G.
c.. reader. Ritz-Carlton hotel New
York.
A.--To measure the distance OF the
stars, the diameter OF the orbit OF The
earth, line about lS6,OOo0O0 miles long
is the only one that astronomers have
for base line. Any triangle can be
solved when three parts, one being side.
ARE given. The diameter OF the orbit OF
the earth Is known with great accuracy
-ls5.78.Sa4 miles.
Two angles. at intervals OF half year
are measured. giving directions OF the
star from the earth In it's two positions
Then the triangle is at once computed.
But the entire 1856. 7Ts.Ss4 miles is so ex-
cesslvely short, as seen from even the
nearest star. that It is about as difficult
to measure as is the diameter OF a
spiders thread.
And It required 1870 years OF hard work
to make instruments fine enough to meas
ure stellar angles. Then il was found
that the nearest star Ia distant $500, Co.,
100000 miles.
To measure the distances OF the planets
Is easy in comparison. Measure the an
giles from the earth and sun to all the
planets and solve. This requires many
years of accurate measuring.
But this gigantic work can be dispensed
with by merely watching the times re-
quired for all the planets TO revolve
around the sun. All that has then to be
done is TO square these times and extract
the cube roots OF the squares. These
Iroots are true distances OF all of the
planets in terms OF the earths distance
from the SUM-
These relative distances were known be-
3 fore the earth's distance In miles had
been measured. Thus II was known that
Jupiter is 90 times farther from the sun
than the earth Is long before IT was
known that the earths distance is o.
| s69l7 miles.