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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lodgical Universe. Sir Oliver, onetime (1913-14) president of the Association, had much to say to his colleagues and to the public. He offered his entire private cosmogony, an explanation of the physical universe based upon the inference that there was, in the beginning, and still is, a universal medium, ether, very dense, continuous, all-permeating, boundless, and everywhere in violent motion. Since matter is now known to be pure energy in complicated forms, the origin of matter out of the ether might be accounted for thus: the continuity of the ether was at some time interrupted by "an extremely...
Many such cavities or bubbles formed, explained Sir Oliver. How some acquired characteristics opposite to others, he could not say, but inferred that there were opposites, the positive and negative particles of that form of energy called electricity. Their high speed made mutual penetration difficult. Instead of destroying one another they agglomerated in clusters (atoms, molecules) masses (star dust, worlds, material universes...
Besides the form of energy which thus became matter, Sir Oliver declared that he thought there were other forms?for one, Life; for another, Intelligence. "It seems to me," he said, "that there is a guiding and directing principle ab extra which interacts with the material of the physical universe but is not of it." He reiterated his dogmatic assertion that other energetic entities, undreamed of by physical science, were the intuitions of poets, prophets, saints; entities of the realm of spiritism...
Comments. Dr. Michael Idvorsky Pupin, outstanding U. S. electro-mechanist, said: "Sir Oliver Lodge has his ether doing wonderful things. But I don't believe...
...hours after Old Glory had gone out to sea, Tully and Medcalf climbed into the Sir John Carling, a Stinson Detroiter, similar to the ship in which Edward F. Schlee and William S. Brock started around the world. In their map case was a short note. It told of the Old Glory's SOS. The message had come just before Tully and Medcalf left; friends feared to shake their nerves on the take-off by telling them. Somewhere out at sea they must open the map case, and learn how somewhere into the tossing water beneath them another ship...