The Cordova daily times., 1919-11-06
SCIENTISTS OF AMERICA WILL
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. (by Asso, ciated Press Although it has been believed for more than two centuries that ether is of uniform density throughout space, it's density, as a matter of fact, increases outwardly from all the heavenly bodies directly as the radius, Professor T. J. J. See, the government astronomer at Mare Island, near here, asserted in an ad- dress to the California Academy of Sciences here last night.
 In announcing the discovery Of "a fundamental law of the density of ether in the celestial spaces and the cause of molecular forces" Professor See said the homogeneity of ether had been taught by such eminent phi losophers as Lord Kelvin, Maxwell, Poincare, Lodge and Larmor, while Sir Isaac Newton in 1721 had be- lieved it to be heterogeneous, with density increasing outwardly from all bodies.
 Newton, however, was unable to discover the law of the density, or to adduce proof of his opinion, whereas Professor See said last night that proof of his discovery had been ex- amined by leading American mathe- maticians and pronounced incontro- vertible"
 Professor See presented his findings shat "the ether about the sun and stars is filled with electromagnetic waves with amplitudes varying in yersely as the distance, which leads to forces carrying inversely as the square of the distance" This, he said, explains universal gravitation in the simplest and most conclusive man. ner"
 The concrete result of his discov- cry. Professor See said, is to show that ether is 219 times denser at the earth than at the suns surface, where it is only two-millionths of mil lionth of millionth of the density of water.
 sively smalldensity," said the govern ment scientist, 'it is able to transmit the stupendous forces required to keep the planets circulating in their elliptical orbits. In the case of the earth this force is the breaking strength of a steel cable eleven inches in diameter on each square foot of cross section of the globe, as Ii the earth's surface were almost covered by such cables"
 . Ether is in reality gas made up of particles, Professor See said, two billion times smaller than an cleo tron, which Professor Sir J. J. Thom- son of Cambridge, England, president of the Royal Society, after thirty years of labor, showed to be 1,76O times smaller than an atom of hydrogen.
 Professor See submitted tables of the properties of hydrogen, helium, oxygen and other gases to show their mean free path" that is the length of trajectory between successive col lisions of their molecules, to be about one-half millionth of an inch
 As compared with this, Professor See calculated the free path of ether particles at nearly two thousand miles, about the distance from San Francisco to St. Louis. But in addl- tion to this extreme length of free path" said the professor, "ether par ticles have the enormous velocity Of 25OOOO miles per second, one-third faster than light
 . Tt is by virtue of it's highly elastic properties" said the professor, "1,l4S,- 77o,OOO 900 times greater than that Of our air, in proportion to it's density, that ether can swing the planets about the sun without disrupting itself
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