Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-07-15
NOTED DIsCOVERER WAS
N MEXICO SATURDAY.
4 J. J. See, on bis way 70 his Home in
California. Stops in This City
for Evening.

Professor Thomas jefferson jackson
See. d~iscoverer and one of the mos
notable scientists Of the dag, spen
Saturday evening in Mexico retunin,
TO his post at Mare Island, California
from a visit with relatives in Mont
gomery County, Mo. As announced
IN the St. Louis papers Sunday DR.
See states he has added to his other
well known scientific discoveries the
cause Of grayitation. He has sent the
Royal Society Of London a brief show
ing this force which hafied students
for centuries is an electrical phenom-
omen. "Gravitation." said Prof. See,
sis an electrical phenomenon and does
not act instantly across space. but is
transmitted with the velocity Of light.
thus coming from the sun to the earth
IN eight minutes"
While in this city, DR.. Sec was the
guest of Mrs. X. E. See, mother of
Mrs. Mitchell White.
In September, exactly $50 years
since Newton was first occupied with
grsVitation in 1865, Prof. SEQ has
promised to make public some Of his
important findings in regard to the
electrodynamic forces which govern
the motions Of the planets in their
orbits.
The cause Of terrestrial magnetism
and the periodic fluctuations depend
ing on the actions of the sun and
moon, the Aurora Borealis and the
earth currents often noticed to dis
turb telegraphs and cables.
Why wireless telegraphy is better
by night than by day.
Why the magnetic needle points
north and the nature of the rotations
in the aether about a magnet.
Why a magnet has poles and does
not attract in the center.
The cause of the 11-year period in
the sun spots and the corresponding
l1-year period in the magnetic
storms" of the earth.
The form of the streamers Of the
Solar Corona. r
The cause of the reflection of the
needle by a current as it runs along
a neighboring wire, first observed ,
by 0ersted in 1919. !
The attraction of iron finnings to a [,
copper wire bearing a current, first /.
noted by Arago in 1920. (.
The direct effect of sun light on a ,
magnetic needle, as in Nipher's ex-
pertinent Of 1913. I,
The true relation between !:@ht and
electricity; showing that the aether I,
Is a gas having particles NOV !
ing with the enormous velocity Of !
miles a second yet for rapid y
displacements has the property Of an !
elastic solid and thus is capable Of
transmitting the stupendous stresses =
holding the earth in its orbit. \
The connection between magnetism II
g~ravitation; that the aether, is a
moving medium instead Of a Jelly. as \
long believed; that all physical forces {
depend on currents in the aether. such !,
rs flow into the poles Of magnets. h,
That Gauss theory Of terrestrial !,
magnetism, developed in 1883, now (,
Ias greatly renewed Significance, and =.
the cornerstone Of the electro !,
theory of the heavenly mo d
ions. :
In 1906 Prof. See detected the cause !,
I earthquakes and mountain forma- !.
in the leakage of the oceans. i
.verthrowing false theories taught in 1,
for more than a century. In u
9O8 he established the laws of the
ormation of the solar system and re-
ueed cosmogony to a scientific basis, :,
ince adopted by the leading men of
in all European countries.