New Britain herald., 1928-02-06
NORTON EXPLAINS
 EARTH'S REVOLVING
Cause of Axial Motion Due to
 Resisting Medium
tBy David B. Norton1


 rhure arc many phenomena in as- ,ronomy that cannot be explained m the light of present Knowledge, brc.us, there are no demonstrated facts to use as premises upon which to base ones reasoning. Newton. in order to make his miraculously caused rectilnear motions persis- tent assumed empty celestial spaces, or, celestial spaces filled with me dium so non-rcs.sting that body like the earth could rush through them for an infinite length of time, at a velocity ot IS miles per second. without having the velocity percep- tibly diminished. This is absurd, be- cause no such celestial medium ex- ists, nor Is there any good reason for ing such a medium to ex- ist. This is another of those assump- ton of Newton's that were not true and that now remain as stumbling blocks in the way of scientific pro G"ess.
 Newton's prestige is such because Lc discovered the force of gravita- ton. and mathematically demon .irated the truth of his conception, that astronomers seem to think that ven his assumptions must be true Iso whether they agree with known 'acts or not.
 In order to explain axial revolh- iion among the heavenly bodies il is necessary 10 assume the existence e, rt sist'ng celestial medium; and unti! the existence of such med! t,m is realized and admitted thN tausc of those motions will always remain 9 mystery. There are so n,any pheonema that cannot be eS plaincd except in accordance witr this hypothesis: but that can be easily explained by using 1t as rrcmise to reason from that to the writer it seems that this alone amounts to demonstration Of Its truth. The evidence of resisting eel astial medium is written so large in the heavens that none can fall to sec il except those who do no' want 10.
 If tfore Is no resisting c"lestlh. medium how can the nucleus of j comet be brok an in it's fall towarc the sun" If there is no resisting e. icstia, meJum what could possibl, 7alusc the pieces of said comet 1s separate? I refer to Bielia's come of lS4e and 1852: but if is a fac that il is. generally speaking, th' iatn of comets 70 waste themselves away in the celestial spaces b, irnaking up and burning up: hu there is ro possible way to rationai ly explain this "Xc"pt by very higl vclocitIes and a resisting celest,a medium. You see the resisting celes tlaI m edi1IIn r,volvcs in the same dl rcction that the planets revolve md about as fast. so that they ar not resisted: but the comets fall fi T. ctly toward the sun. or almost so and 50 meet with very high res's lance. Some comets have retrograd' motion which IS motion in a con trary direction 10 the orbital motion. of the planets and the resisting ce lestial medium. These comets mec with the greatest resistance iron the resisting celestial medium anr dred O. ten hundred million mil" long. The whole of star-drift can h. ,Xplained by what We know of gray national force providing we ostu late also the action of q resisting ce estial medium.
 Up 10 about twenty -fly" or thir-. thousand years ago the earth ha' no moon. but revolved about th ~un inc same as Venus and Mercur J1:-'hat is by always turning th =amc side 70 th sun the same 8 the moon always turns the same sid toward tn, earth. Up 10 this tim tine sun shone only upon that sid of the earth turned toward if. Tn side of the earth V hich was turnc 5 way from in. sun was covered b q great she { of ice nearly one mil thick. The period ot time durin which this sheet of ice cover" raarly half the earth is called th clacial period. This period covere m enormous length of time, prop ah'v a' least one billion years. B. Tor" The eldriI' period began. th climate over tha <hole earth va cry ~srrn. nven 10 tlc poles. an r. vas then that our coal-mcasiJre We're laid down; but if does not fol