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nsade out anEia the lnH8mtlOn og the
Oae6be iEM resolved them In
Ia ilAramdescsnt nshulze Prof. James
Keller. stndenf oE mine, when Il
taught Id saa gohna Hopkins univer-
sIty. succeeded I'LL showing. While OK
the Lick observatory, thar many. V not
All, of these nehulae are spiral and
seem 10 Be revolving around nue.
#ieus, witch aevyea as i center of gray
ity ID their particles. III vas irnnae-
dlately inferred mat these spiral neb-
alae were solar systems IN process Of
fOrnaation, md tEis lent great weight
To the theory. propOunded by Laplace
Iii the latter part Of the 18th century
and generally known as the nebular
Hypothesis, which assumed TO account
for the origin Or our som system But
the question naturally arose whence
came these nebnlae, as the rule ap-
pegring to be that the most eft the
mater III the universe was gathered
into sun systems The answer was
that not only we're there worlds a-
TENS ID process Of formation but 9TH
ers were going out Of existence, hay
lng burnt out and become dead
through the natural law, existent ey-
erywhere and in ali things. Of birth,
growth, decay and death. These dead
kodAes, released from the attraction,
which kept them IN orderly orbits,
wander on ii space, their courses be-
Ing modified By other bodies which
they near, until finally two Of them
run full tilt into each other and the
heat generated By the impact converts
them into lneandescent nebulOus mat
ter Thus ne have a reasonable aG-
count of the origin "a the nebulae,
many thousands of which are found IN
space.
New the Isaplacian hypothesis takes
hold Of one Of these nebulous masses
TO build up our solar system One 81
the Observed laws oe matter Is that
when d portion Of 1t % suspended in
space and its particles are of such
consistency that they are free 70 move
Iin any direction. II always assumes q
globular shape We see this verified
lii the llrst rain drops that fall on a
dry earth. They make circular
splashes Raindrops, when. before
reaching the earth. they pass through
freezing stratum Of air. fall as round
hail stones. Gun shot were formerly
made ~ dropping the molten lead
from high tower into water below,
The pellets had already set before
reaching the water.
The same law acting on the nebula
with which We are dealing. would
make IL gather into glDbular shape
Is the two bodies struck each other
with d kind Of side swlpe, me whole
Enebula would begin tn rotate from the
beginning. But whether this was true
or not, the globe would. through alle
influence Of two natural laws 1.-THE
kinetic theory of gases and certain
law OF heat action begin to rotate in
ternaily. THE cooling and contrae-
ton on itself would make It rotate
faster and faster until q time would
come, when the whole mass assun-
/ ing d aiscll1xe shape and the tangel-
| tfal ar centrifugal force more than
counserbalhnciIg the centripetaI,
would throw or q large ring Of matter
from It's equator into space. This ring
would gather togsther into . globulaT
mass and would 90 thnmugh the same
process 81 evolution as the central
sun and form d planet, which would
/ III It's turn, throw on rings Of matter.
| III should be stated that Ill these
rings, when thrown or would con
tinue on, ID 4 straight line. into space
hat for The gravitational attraction Of
the central ioly, which would pull
them hack and make them reVolve
around their central primaries.
In this way Laplac's theory accounta
for the evolution az our solar system,
hut futher consideration Of Il will
/ have to Ee deferred to another mr.
tticle
SAMUEL. GARNER.
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