The Washington times., 1920-02-08

That Is 10 say, fortv nervous I'M
pulses per second. And in an or
dinsry lifetime, with ordinary
health, you are capable of about
as many impulses or sensations
as would be represented by ten
raised TO the eleventh power, that
Is 10 say about hundred thousand
millions. Few of US have so
many sensations before the grave
gets US, but doubtless .superman,
later, will have and enjoy them
all.
The word atom" meaning in
Greek mot cuttable" or too small
TO be- divided. was the wrong
word, for as you know the atom
Is the center around which re-
wolves the electrons. TO which all
matter can be reduced. If you
want to know what complicated
machine you are, figure the num-
ber Of electrons making up the
atoms contained in your body.
That number would be represent
ed by ten raised to the thirty
first power. Write ten, add thirty
zeros, and you will have II. A
body like that ought to be worth
taking care of.
In the millions of years ahead OF
us our minds ought TO do some,
capable work, as the cortex or
bark OF that brain deepens, goes
down and brings TO active mental
lie the billions OF electrons now
lying idle In the cold brain sub
stance, waiting to be plowed up to
activity.
Ossian, the Irish poet, whose
spurious works deceived our own
Thomas Jefferson, and nearly
everybody else, except wise DR..
Johnson, once visited the land Of
Tir Nan-Ogue, Irish for the Land
OF the Young. He thought he spent
three years there, but learned that
he had actually been in the blessed
country three centuries.
A good scientific book is the real
Tir Nan-Ogue; it is the land of
youth, of mental excitement. Three
hours In such a book will give
you as much thought as three
years in the dull prosaic world.
The mind in the infinitely big
and little seeks constantly for
definite limits. Here is one that
may interest you. Light and c &c
tricity both travel at the rate OF
one hundred and eighty-six tnou-
sand miles second, more than
seven times around the wo in
one second. There are sta 20
far away that their Light hasn't
reached our solar system yet, al
though our system prob bly, ex-
listed in about its pres mt shape
for a thousand million years. The
speed of light probably is the
fastest that exists. Are YOU in
terested in the power Of figures?
Take an ordinary dried Eurrant,
multiply its size by u igTire rep
resented by ten with tSsnty-one
zeros added, and your currant
would he big .roJrh 70 fill the
whole universo out { the fartIest
star visible in tN" powerful
microscope or on photo
graphic platce long ex-
posure.
The atom, as you ave been told,
is small; figures are powerful. A
dried currant big ough 10 fill the
universe, as we Sc i, would con-
tain twenty thousand trillion
atoms. The word trilliou being
used as the English use i. mean
ing a billion billions, escb billion
a million millions.
What there may b. beyond " nat
we call "the universe" 10 Huite
mind presumably will ever know.
William Herschel, tie great Eng
lish astronomer of German blood,
announced 134 years ago Jaat e
had discovered fifteer Gund2 d
universes." He referred t. .Iiteen
hundred of the mysterious nebu-
lac, by some believed to be cosmic
cities as great as our Milky Way,
with all it's suns.
Our little minds get clear