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...Haven, Conn. last week Edwin Hubble delivered the first three of eight endowed lectures on the present state of nebular knowledge, free to Yale students and townsfolk. He wasted no time whizzing his hearers past the solar system, past the local star cluster, past the local star galaxy (the Milky Way) to the limits of the known universe. Dr. Hubble's longest looks into space have disclosed star-swarms 500,000,000 light-years away, and this appears to be the limit of Mt. Wilson's giant telescope. Thus the observable universe is a sphere about a billion...
...collected and examined toward the end of the 19th Century it was discovered that Swedenborg had been ahead of his time in almost every field of science. He invented an ear-trumpet and mercury air pump, sketched a submarine, airplane, machine gun, fire extinguisher, steam engine. He propounded the nebular hypothesis before Kant and LaPlace, anticipated all Scandinavian geologists in his studies of paleontology, was first to explain the phenomenon of phosphorescence, beat modern physicists by 150 years with his molecular magnetic theory and modern physiologists with his discoveries concerning the nature and activity of the brain, spinal cord...
...deduced in this manner, since the spectra are too faint to be analyzed. But it has been observed that speeds are closely proportional to distance, increasing about 1,000 miles per second for every 10,000,000 light-years of space. Few months ago Dr. Hubble measured the fastest nebular retreat at 24,000 miles per second. That one was 240,000,000 light-years away. No decipherable spectrum of the outpost nebula reported last week was obtained, but. if it follows the rule, it is receding from Earth at 50,000 miles per second...
...redshift of the farthest whose spectra could be analyzed (about 150,000,000 lightyears) indicated the thumping pace of 15,000 miles per second. Thus the galaxies at the frontiers of the observable universe must be receding twice as fast, and at the unseen bounds of the cosmos the nebular velocity must be greater than that of light...
Professor Mather will probably cover the various theories of the formation of the earth, whether from nebular matter in space; or perhaps by a breaking off from the sun owing to a tidal wave created by a passing comet, the Jeans theory. He will present the various conjectures and discoveries about the formation of the earth's shell of rock...