Evening star., 1932-12-29
FIERY MONSTER
FOUND IN SPACE
Gigantic Pinwheel as Big as
"a Suns Described
to Scientists.
Nv the Associated Press.


c9.-Out in space gigantic pinwheel OF
two balls of fire as big as "a suns has
been discovered. 1t is whirling at the
rate of about a million miles an hour,
in a space only about as wide as fifth
of the distance between the sun and
the earth.
The results of 12 years observations.
which have proved the existence of
this fireworks monster We're reported to
the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science today by Prof.
Raymond S. Dugsn of Princeton.
The pinwheel is the star SIX CaSsi-
opiae, so distant that even in tele-
scope it is Just pinpoint of light to
mans eye. This star is really twins.
one Whirling about the other. one 16
times the suns diameter and the other
3 times
The big twin is made of flaming
substance averaging only half the den-
sity of air The pair is unusually close
together" for twin stars, that is. being
separated by about 100000 miles.
They revolve around each other once in
18 hours.
IGNORANCE Curve" Explained.
The Ignorance curve" plotted by G.
F. Kettering of General Motors is
based on methane. or marsh gas be-
cause of its striking resemblance to
human institutions. Mr.. ketterlng eX-
planned the curve today. Yesterday he
said it was more surprising than any
of the curves they were exhibiting on
charts of the depression
There are lot of atoms in marsh
gas more billions of them in small
puff of gas than there are humans alive.
Scientists know lot about these
carbon atoms in one single molecule
OF methane.
They know 80 per cent Of what the
atoms are doing, an achievement COM
pairing favorably with what is known of
the doings in one single human being.
So Kettering plotted this knowledge
of all about the carbon atoms in one
noleCule against what could happen
in the countless billions of carbon in
dividuals in large number of methane
molecules.
When the carbon atoms get together
ir this way there were millions and
millions of things they might do which
could not be foretold from the 80 per
cent knowledge about what one group
of atoms was doing
1t was like an economist trying to
forecast what the millions of men in
a nation would do by estimating ac-
he actually knew to 30 per cent OF
certainty.
Kettering's carbon atom curve start
ing with 80 per cent knowledge drop
ped quickly down to almost nothing.
As extra molecules were added to the
population, there were more and more
chances for unexpected happenings
and greater and greater ignorance OF
what would take place.
Curve Called Warning.
This ignorance curve" said Ketter-
ing. lis a warning to keep us from
attempting foolish things like declar-
ing a moratorium on invention with
the iCea that We can predict what the
result of that action will be-
We have plotted too many curves
of what we know. We should begin
to plot also what We don't know.
We have mistaken mathematical re-
lationships for quantity for understand
ing of fundamental principles"
The old biblical idea that earth, the
heavens and stars were created all at
once in one mighty action, instead OF
condensing piecemeal from a "nebula
was given official sanction last night.
This picture of creation is the latest
discovery Of science. and was explained
by Dr. Harlow Shapley. the Harvard
astronomer. 1t has the sun and all
the stars and planets forming out OF
one big cloud of something possibly hot
gas.
1t all happened about 10 billion years
ago. That's what EinStein recently sug-
gested. The new theory is an out
growth of the idea of Abbe LIE Maitre,
Belgian astronomer. that creation
originally was just one big atom, which
exploded into the present expanding
universe
Technocracy Discounted.
Technocracy, the engineers idea that
economic ills can be cured by plan
ing business like a power house opera
ton to take care of every ones wants,
was expla aimed at an unemployment
symposium. Several of the listening
scientists discussed the technocracy pro-
posal briefly. holding that it was only a
partial remedy. Some said it was only
minor.
The average intelligence of New
York City is declining. said DR. j. B.
Mailer of Columbia University. Jewish
children are brighter than any other
national group"
Brother Jim looks different from his
twin because of the effects of ultra
violet light which his own and other
living bodies generate. These invisible
rays strike and modify the genes
which fix the details of personal ap-
pearance and much more besides.
and the notifications in the genes"
scientifically named mutations" ac-
count for the difference between people.
Identification of the human rays work.
ing on the genes was announced by
Diminitry Borodin of New York City.