The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-01-18
EARTH TO Be DESTROYED
BY HEAT OF RAD|UM
NEW THEORY IS ADVANCED BY
SCIENTIST BUT 1T NEED
NOT CAUSE ALARM.
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Nearly 1900 years ago St Peter
wrote in the third chapter of his Sec
ond epistles:
But the day Of the Lord will come
as thief in the night; in which the
heavens shall pass away with a great
noise and the elements shall melt with
fervent heat, the earth also and the
works that are therein shall be burned
|up."
And today, writing in the Electrical
Experimental II. Gernsbach, in an ed
itorial, says:
If we place thermometer in phial
containing a minute quantity of ra-
dunn bromide, the purest commercial
lradium, the mercury will indicate a
Temperature of 2.7 degrees hotter than
the temperature outside of the phial.
The heat radiated from our speck of
radium bromide does not grow less as
the days and months pass nay, years
and centuries, roll by
In order to better comprehend what
this means, let us compare it with
coal. This is what we find
1 According to Prof. Soddy, a grain
Of pure radium evolves 1873 calories of
heat per hour. In one year (S76 hours)
the same gram of radium evolves L.
100000 calories in $500 years-the
length of time radium will evolve en-
ergy-2, 900, 100000 calories will be de-
l2200 calories of heat.
And radium is by no means as
scarce as most people believe Radi-
lum emanations have been found in
springs, in the air, in rocks, etc, and
this has given rise to an extraordinary
theory regarding the evolution of tho
worlds.
When the famous Swiss Italian
Simplon tunnel was constructed some
Years ago totally unforeseen circum-
stances arose which made the work
most difficult. Although this tunnel
Is far above sea level. the heat be-
came uncomfortable as the work pro-
crossed. Artificial cooling had to he
resorted to in order to allow the work.
men to proceed with their work. Prof
Jolly then made the astounding dis.
covery that the rocks of the Simplon
contained radium, which accounted
for the unexpected high temperature
: within the mountain.
From this Jolly has built up a new
theory of evolution, and while revolu-
tionary in the extreme, it is most
plausible and gains more adherents
each year.
Burst in 100000 Years.
Lord Kelvin already deduced that If
the earth contained only two parts of
Iradium per million million--and a
great deal more is actually found in
the rocks and crust of our globe
this minute quantity would raise the
temperature of the earth's core 1900
degrees C. in 1OO,00O,000 years. There
being no escape for the imprisoned
Iheat-the earth's crust being an ex-
ceedingly bad heat conductor-Prof.
Jolly convinces us that as the ages
roll by the interior of the earth must
become hotter and hotter Finally,
after the end of millions of years,
the crust must give way to this tre-
mendous heat from within and the
bursting earth must go up in flames
becoming burning gas ball, just as
we see our sun today.
This will be the "incandescent age"
title suggested by Prof, Soddy. Az
ter another tens of million years the
Iincandescent earth will have expended
all Of its heat into space by radiation
and 1t gradually win COOL A new
crust then begins to form anew.
Thus we find that worlds do not
die. 1t Is more than probable from
the above that the earth must have
passed many times through this cy-
Icle
This is the new and greater gospel
of radium, the element which will
emancipate man and which will de-
stroy him and his all later