The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1922-08-04
QUANTUM THEORY
NEAR POSSIBILITY
Would Make Einstcin's ChiId's Play
In Comparison.

, London, July GIVE are OF
the eve OF scientific discoveries of 50
sensational and so far-reaching 9
character as to rendbr Einstein y
theory, by comparison, child's play
I predict that within the next five
ten or at the outside twenty years
man will be able to say; II have har-
messed the atom" The und srlying
factor in the conquest of the atom is
that remarkable affair, the Guam
tum Theory"
This represents the view Of one of
the most eminent English scientists.
"Einstein." he added, "astonished
the world with relatively. The Guam
tum Theory promises to revolutionize
1t. Einstein showed there were
kinks in space. The Quantum Theo-
ry shows there are gaps-either in
time or in time multiplied by energy
1t has taught us the vital truth that
there is one law for the individual
atom, but another for a collection of
atoms-commonly known as matter.
What IL Means.
LET me explain, first, what har-
Messing the atom means. 1t is sim
ply the artificial disintegraton of the
atom in order to utilize the energy
stored in ii for the practical purposes
of life.
"The energy stored in such ele-
ments as thorium and uranium is
stupendous. In one ton of uranium
there is as much potential power as
in a million tons of coal. and it only
needs the knowledge of how to ignite
it-how to cause the atoms to break
up when we desire-to make this
power imms diately available.
"The cost and weight of atomic
energy would be negligible. One man
would be able to carry. without effort !
sufficient fued to drive larga liner |
from Southampton to New York. I !
see no reason why he should not be |
flying to the moon before the century |
is out.
"The Immediately apparent effect
of the release of the atom will prob
ably be the electrification of every
thing. and I foresee that in the near
future we shall be an entirely air
born population. The transmutation
of one metal into another will be
simple matter, as will be the pro-
duction of new metals, or alloys of
enormous strength. 1t is conceiv-
able, too, that such terrific force
might eventually be liberated as to
blow up the world.
War.
Then consider the possibilities of
var. The first nation to discover the
secret will be in, a position to wine
)ut all the other nations, literally. in
/ quarter of an hour. 1t could send
over an airplane with 2,000-pound (
bomb which would have as devasta
ing an effect as that of a million
lirplanes carrying the 2.000-pound
combs in use today.
IAN atomic bomb with force
equivalent to the existing 1000
'ound bombs, would weigh almost
ess than penny postcard.
"The question is: Which will that
ation be?
"Einstein ptcved we live, so to I
peak in a spece distorted Ike the {
pace behind convex mirror. The [
.uantum Theory proves that we have |
Cinematogra phic existence consist I
rs of series of discontinuous |
jumps. We should have to scrap air 7
ne laws of physics as accepted srCm I
he days of Newton onwards- for {
he simple reason that If applied to t
tonic phenomena they are not only s
but utterly wrong. They e
My apply to directly observable phe-
omepa, such as the revolution of the d
lanets round the sun, in which the O
illlons of atoms concerned permit of a
he law of average coming into oper- n
ton. AS soon as you bring them to r
ear on the individual atom me are s
Ow beginning u realize that they v
re hopelessly inaccurate.
The mere existence of atoms is in
Dmpatible with the old laws, and it
only when we have learned thru A
ne Quantum Theory what underlies
heir stability that we shall really be F
BILE to control and disinHegrate
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