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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even modern conceptions, based as they should be, on the discoveries of the spectroscope and telescope, are not always as broad as one might expect. The spaces involved in astronomical measurements are too great to be comprehended. Astronomers, like Flammaxion, for example, realize that there are universes without end, infinite distances apart in infinite space. They know that the whole solar system has been moving through space for ages,--that no star, no planet ever has the same absolute position twice. The popular classification of stars as "fixed", is therefore a purely arbitrary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR LITTLE SYSTEMS | 1/11/1924 | See Source »

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