Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-20
AGELESS UNIVERSE
THEORY ADVANCED
New Mathematics Indicate
Possible FalIacy of "Heat
Death" Idea.
BY HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE,
Associated Press Science Rditor.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, November 40
New mathematics indicating that the
universe may 90 ON living forever was
presented to the National Academy OF
Sciences at Yale University Tuesday.
The scientific idea for years has been
that inevitably creation is bound some
day to freeze up, form OF universal
death, mot only for earthly life but for
all forms OF energy.
The new mathematics was explained
by DIR. Richard Chace Tolman Of Cali
foFnia Institute Of Technology. He ranks
as one of the best known mathe-
mAticians In the world, and Is one OF
the men With whom Enstein conferred
On his visit to the United States year
ago.
The old cheat death" theory is based
on the undeniable facts that matter Is
rapidly being converted into heat, light
and other forms of radiation, and the
thermodynamic laws, which seem to
prevent a reversal Of this running down
hill process.
Models" Of Creation.
Dr. Tolman has created some mathe-
NAUTICAL models" of creation in which
this seemingly impossible reversal takes
place. He said these models are part
ly analogous to actual facts. each one
differing from present known realities
in some significant respect
So very little Is known about the
universe outside the immediate neigh
borhoOd Of the earth, that these mathe-
NAUTICAL models are not necessarily i'm
possible dreams.
If radiation-that ID, light and heat
start converting themselves back into
solid matter, the universe which now is
running down can some day again re-
new its youth. In one model DR.. Toll
man finds this fundamentally possible
provided matter changes into radiation
fast enough to maintain q certain nee
essary equilibrium or balance.
Other models which show poSSibili-
ties of rebuilding an aging universe are
produced by applying the principles OF
relatively to thermodynamics.
Under the new thermodynamic prin-
cipleS thus created, the old law OF con-
servation Of energy, which seems to re-
quire that the universe shall ultimately
freeze up, works differently.
Pictured Future Conditions.
The result, said Dr. Tolman, is
picture Of future conditions (which
could lead to less terrifying results than
in classical thermodynamics."
Three meals q day is not SUFFICIENT
for the young men who attend Yale
i've Is nearer their requirement. Thus
DR.. Yandell Henderson of Yale COM
mented on feeding experiments. Babies,
he explained, need meals about every two
hours, and it may well be that the
habit Of restricting youth to three regu-
lar meals begins too young.
George o. Squier Of Washington said
that equipment to carry radio programs
over electric light wires to homes Is
ready for practical use after 10 years
Of research.
The known history Of mammalian
animals on the Pacific Coast Is pushed
back 10000, 900 years by bones found
in Ventura County, Calf. Studies Of
those bones were reported by DR.. Ches-
ter Stock of the California Institute Of
Technology Ventura County now in
cludes mountains, but 10000, 900 years
ago was low plain, tropical. the home
Of titanothereS, little land rhinoceri and
big river rhinocert and oreodontS, hog
like creatures.