The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-11-15
PROF, CHAMBERLAIN SCRAPS THE
NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS; ASSERTS:
INTERIOR Of THE EARTH IS SOLID

chicago. Nrv. IL Now doctrines ~
geology. basel 81 :, new theory II Tie
or,cln 81 jlsc r.,ri&. We're outlined l" TIA"
\atiural Academy - Scir@'"S here to-
day ny rr"t. Thomas /. Chamberlain.
cmer!;uS heat Of the d"INrtn"nt OF
Seu.oGy e.: N" University of Chicago.
E::ui ha:.izj"I tbs revo,wt!"ual motions
90 the earth ~ planet. Which have
largely gone Uuurt!rrd ~ geology. Prof.
Chamberlain declared that they we're
some thousands z ;!ucS greater than
the more tangible N!h-N;"ry cnrTG'eS
such as hight. heat and sound.
Q!scard!rE ;he cd View oS the nchu-
lar hypothesis that the interior ~ tho
earth IS m"!tea. rrot. Chamberlain to'd
the academy that IL was solid.
Prof. cha u,h"r,Iin. wh0 - one OF the
worlds foremost gen!oC'S'S. presented
two papers: The tou,ras'ed Typos or
Earth Energy and Their Relation VAL
ues." and ''Ths Paths Taken by tne;SF
IN the Selc-Corpresslon Of the Earth.
rror Chamberlain called attention !
the fact that the older studies OF IN"
earth related chiefly 70 !ts substance
and tat recently attention has turned
moro larg",y 10 - energies.
OLD View Abandoned.
He pointed CAT THAI formerly X was
supposed that the earth MAS once In a
gaseous state and that u condenSe"
from this in:O 4 molten S,ohe. It's sur
face confederation and rs det"CinltonS
vsre assigned 70 cooling. The studies
OF the ear;hS energy and momentum
however. revealed serious d.thcuI'i"7
in making such : history ht the RAGS
disclosed by later Investigation. Ut
Chamberlain abandoned III" Oh View
scme twenty years ago and offered :,
new lew known ~ the plane;eSimal
hypothesis. Under this View the earth
was bull. up very slowly by gathering
In minute bodies whose energies ana
-noreuta we're OF the same sort rs that
OF the p'anets into which they are gath
cred and hence they met the old d1tH-
culties.
WORK Of Years.
rhs new view, however. makes II
necessary to recast many or ire o."
doctrines OF geology 70 bring them int"
accord with the new basis. Or Chain-
berlin has been at work upon this t"r
several years.
HIS Nrst PAPER today brought out the
Remarkable preporderance OF the
constructive revoiuronal energies over
the aEttative Migratory energies
This arrears 70 have escaped atten-
,,on" Trot. Chamberl!n said, because
tho former are 50 sinSularlY unootru-
s,ye. Tho latter. though much :ntrrioc
In real value. are very GemonStratiHe
and have had the Hons share OF atten-
ton.
Tho reyoIut.cnal motions OF the
earth ~ a planet and the similar mo-
lions row believed 70 be essential Yea
lures OF the atoms largely escape nrd'-
nary notice. while the v.hratory actions
srcb a. sound. heat light. the N-rays.
etc. make themselves felt very kecn.y.
especially Il these are at all intense.
I'VE are SO constituted that we are
sensitive 70 thcs. aSitat!ve energies.
hut not % the other type. Our sense
impressions need therefore 20 be rect!-
eed.
b. estimates % tho real values OF the
two typa.. pr. C-!ar1herl!n showed that
thA rr0Sc-usiye revolut!onaI energies
connected with me earth ara some thou
sands OF times greater than tho more
tangible y.hratory energies. TIE TWO
kinds however. cooperate with ono an
other and are mutually interchangeable
Or. Charnh"-l!n's second paper relat-
Cd 70 the ss':--omPr"sSion of the earth
Under tho uN,y view. th:s = merely tho
nv'l!n,- together ~ Il S",jl boil? b. ia
ov., attraction. The e~r,h grows more
and more SOFA rs III" WORK goes on. he
sst1 Much = the energy goes e. make
~, mora COMPACT and moro resistant
structures,
Some. however goes ~ HGu!sy 'ho
r,orc Nru,nahle Substances. but th''Sa
are su""az"d out about rs fast as they
roach s,',"ezah,e volumes. They thus
leave the interior solid.