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...irradiation or penetrating bullets of energy, scientists have often shot away from the atom the electrons which spin about the nucleus. But if they were able to wedge apart the stable nucleus, change the number and arrangement of its protons and electrons, they could transmute one element to another, unloosing at the same time tremendous energy. It has been estimated that one million horsepower would be given off for one hour in forming 4 gr. of helium out of hydrogen. If man could make positive and negative charges rush together, annihilate their substance and become transformed into light rays...
Quite as arresting as such phenomena is phenomenal Charles Fort, who puts such questions with an accusing grin at Science. He is a world's champion professional anti-scientist. For 23 years he has grubbed in museums and libraries for records of occurrences which scientists can explain (thinks Fort) only by ridiculous hypotheses or denial that the occurrences occurred...
After the other aspects of Du Chaillu's discoveries are forgotten and the spell of his personality has lifted, scientist may remember him as the first observer of the gorilla in modern times. In the eighteen fifties people were terrified but fascinated by what he told of the great apes. Unfortunately, some of the fabulous native stories of the gorillas were mis-construed as his own, among them tales of the beasts abduoting native women. This distrust has even lingered in the minds of present-day writers. It is interesting that, as a Harvard zoologist, who has specialized...
Because Dr. Albert Einstein is the world's most celebrated living scientist, laymen tend to turn his suggestions into new Einstein theories.* Last week despatches contained accounts of a new Einstein sun theory. While talking with Mt. Wilson Observatory astronomers about cyclones on the sun which sweep clockwise across the southern solar hemisphere, counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, Dr. Einstein suggested that a temperature difference between the sun's poles and equator might be the cause of the solar cyclones. Most probably, he said, the polar regions were warmer than the equatorial regions. Having given out an idea...
...able scientist not so well known as Dr. Einstein also said something about the sun last week. Dr. Walter Nernst, director of the Physical Institute of University of Berlin, 1920 Nobel prize winner in Chemistry, reaffirmed the "heat-death" theory of Sir James Hopwood Jeans (TIME, Jan. 5) by announcing that, from his studies in thermodynamics, he believes the sun is growing smaller, is steadily losing mass by radiation. Now only three billion years old, in ten billion years it will have shrivelled to a tiny speck. At that time the cold earth together with the other planets, will...