The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-03-17
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s,dlcxsa atty be tssnuNA inse
eeruer and konhArdsd with FROM
four 20 AZ nlliicn volts q electricity
Or whatever y needed 10 batter
through the hide q each atom and
destroy lss mass
The mass ~ an atom IA so IN
flinse,y snail that Il n almost fm-
possible 10 measure Il even with the
ma~s as<ic~ie Instrument nut the
aiosn. p@rtlesjArls tho hsdroeen
atom Il very toachy ana when {, "a
destroyed the rc>alisnt excitement Il
literally beyond description.
Al thls was revealed to-day a. tho
Franklin iuslisnie hy nr. y. u. Aston.
Fellow Of Trinity coiloge. Cambridge
England. IN shs last OF hls rive
ic,tarcs on "A,omle Weights and
a>otopes." n a cnly fart ~ tho
revelations coneernlnr now sola.
t,on 10 tho problem OF universal
force that has baffie' scientists and
phisosophers for Ger r.urics
Having worked his way through a
maze of mashemailca and expert.
ments In the preceding four lectures.
pr. Aston eot around today 10 what
Il al sneans 10 the average man
Ne asserted tina, the discovery abou,
,he hydrogen atom furnishes the
first ssnahls theory 20 account fos
the heat of the sun.
Sunshine safe for Awhile
Heretofore some scientists have
been in tho depths Of despair because
they we're unable 10 ftrnre out how
the sun has remained hot until now.
and because an their calculations
Indicated that n ought 20 burn ont
IN the short time of a few million
years hat Dr. Ashton showed that
II the new theory Is correct tho
iumlnary WIN remain on the job for
ten billion years
The scientific Importance of the
theory n tha, I, brlnga into unison
the two sciences Of geology and
physica m ,he rnsi tss-rDy Al
criticism OF scientific works has
been based on the conflict 81 tho
theories evolved by followers of
these fhools.
The conflict came In the effort 10
reconcile theories as 90 the sge of
the earth As the lecturer put Il
today geology needed hundred
million years or so In order 10 ac-
count for various phenomena found
within iis field. hut physics made
this age impossible bf showing that
no known heating element could pos
sibly have lasted 40 long. hasing It's
contention on the known present
rata o. exhaustion OF these elements
Hydrogen Transforming ltrcx. or
being transformer into helium, IN
now put forth as the missing link
According 20 Dr. Ashton. II Is now
possible 20 account in positive ply
slcs tor almost any ass OF the earth
that geology demands. because az
the extraordinary energy by the des-
truction OF the mass of hydrogen.
To put the discovery into every
day terms. II has been shown by the
mass specirograph experiments that
there y enough hydrogen In spoon
fni Of water 10 produce 100000
hlowatt hours OF electricsl energy.
merely by turning the hydrogen into
heIium That energy Is. roughly.
equivalent to 275.eoo horsepower.
A warning against tinkerlng with
the angry atoms was sounded by DR.,
Aston after he had announced the
foregoing facts. IIe made Il clear
that the problem Of controlling
that extraordinary energy will be
even moro difficak than was tho
work connected with iis discovery.
~shoa'a the research worker Of
the future discover some means OF
releasing this energy In form Which
could be employed" said the
lecturer. the human race VII have
AZ its command powers beyond the
dreams Of scientific fiction. but the
remote possibility muss always be
considered that the energy once
liberated viii BE- completely uncon-
trollable and BY its intense violence
cefonste ~ neighboring substances
~ that happens all the hydrogen
Ion the earth might BE- transformed
II once. and this most successful ex :
pertinent might be plblished 70 the
rest Of the universe IN the form CT .
new star oi extraordinary briilIancs
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