Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-20
SCIENTISTS REVEAL
GREAT NEW ENERGY
U. OF p. Professor Substantjates
Theory of Sir Oliver Lodge
Regarding Atomic Force

haiser Bill pulled bone" when he
dIdn first learn how to utilize atomic
energy before he started the world
war.
For there is an energy chained up
IN every particle of matter. in the ma
terlal trolley cars are made of, in the
paper of books, in the flesh, bones and
D'ood OF our bodies, in shoes and in the
,ood we eat which, if liberated, could
literally move mountains.
1T one man knew how to liberate tb;s
energy he might sneer at the world
and the race of men, because they would
continue to exist only on his suffer
ance.
If he knew how to libcrate this en-
ergy QUICKLY as explosive energy he
could raze cities, whole nations IN ons
great rolling puff of smoke. OF course.
nc wouidn be hanging around after
ward to spin yarns about it.
Energy Is There, But
II he knew hew to liberate this en-
ergy slowly, as the energy is liberated
from burning coal in the stove, he
wouldn't have competitor in the bust
ness, commercial and industrial world
aolc 10 keep pace with him.
fIease to remember, however, - said
DIR. Dicran H. Kabakjian, of the de-
partment of physics, University of
pennsylvania. that there is no danger
OF anybody learning how to liberate this
energy for long, long while. Folks
may sleep soundly on that score. But
most certainly the energy is there. II
is being liberated slowly, even now
from radium and other radioactive sub.
stances.
IF you remember, changes in the
state OF matter produce energy. Chem
zeal changes, like those in burning coal.
produce heat energy. Physical changes.
Ike the falling of a stone, which gath.
ers velocity and liberates energy when II
strikes.
Now, this kind of energy is under
the control of man, who knows hovrto
handle 1t to run his steamboats, and his
autos and his factories. But there il
another type of energy which is enor-
mously greater than the usable energy
from all other sources.
Explains New Kind Of Energy
Let me explain this new kind OF
energy in this way, Every particle Of
matter IS made up of countless atoms.
And plumber of atoms combined pro
duce molecules. Scientists agree thar
the kind of energy we have been using
is obtained by a changing molecular
state, that is, atoms unite in a variety
OF combinations, with the atoms re-
naming in themselves unchanged For
instance, when coal burns it combines
with the oxygen of the air, but the
atom of carbon never changes. And
scientists up to the time of the dis
covery of radioactivity believed that
the atom was the smallest indiyisible
particle of matter, and that it never
changed.
The investigation of radioactiyity
proves that the atom does change, that
the atom itself is a complex system.
made up of number of so called cleo
irons, which physicists have actually
measured and proved to be in mass one
seventeen hundredths of the Smallest
atom.
According to the modern view of
atomic structure, each atom of matter
Is composed of number of such elec-
irons rotating around nucleus with
tremendous velocities. If the atom
should in some way or other lose one
OF more of these electrons or part Of
the nucleus large amount of energy is
liberated.
There is no doubt of the power
man might have if he could utilize this
energy. And Sir Oliver Lodge wasn't
fOoling when he said the other day that
II the atomic energy of an ounce or
matter could be utilized it would be suf
tcisnt to raise the German shops suHk
in the Scapa Flow and pile them on top
Of the Scottish mountains - f