| Show SUN bIGHTS AND SOUNDS The present is an interesting period for the astronomers and at all the great observatories ob-servatories the men of science are busy examining the heavenly bodies And it is not only sights but sounds also that thoy are interested In Who ever dreamed of being able to hear sounds in the sun 95000 000 miles away That there ere sounds and loud sounds too breaking upon the photosphere and atmosphere of that mighty orb many reasons there are for believing I The solar mass is a scene of energies which I our feeble minds and limited experience can take Uttle account explosions detonations de-tonations shocks and convulsions that never cease and that must be accompanied with enormous clamor if wo could only hear it Astromomers tell us that vast swarms of meteorites and planetoids drawn from space are continually falling into the sun and it is this that keeps up the tumult faint traces of whioh reach the distant earth and are actually registered so that wo may read them An unusual number of spots such as aro visible at this lime upon the suns disk is always reflected on our earth in changed meteoro logical conditions and it is half suspected that those terrestrial phenomena hurricanes hurri-canes cyclones water spouts and earthquakes earth-quakes have their beginning in tho central luminary of our system and are the products pro-ducts of the precipitation of outside bodies upon the mass This is such an age of marvels in which man almost forgets tho achievements of yesterday in his daring ambition to mako new ones tomorrow that it seoms a waste of time to stop and wonder at whathas been done in tho realm of Invention Yet somo of the projects proposed for widening tho area of human knowledge are so apparently ap-parently superhuman that they almost take our breath away Thus the electrician and inventor EDISOX has conceived con-ceived the idea that it is possible to make this solar tumult audiblo to human ears and he is said to bo busy with an apparatus to subject to a practical test A hill in New Jersey known to contain large quantities quan-tities of magnetic iron ore is conveniently located to assist in the enterprise of furnishing fur-nishing the requisite electrical currents The inventor has set up a number of wires in circuits around this hill and expects to connect thorn with a colossal phonograph Ho reasons that if tho great agitations in the suns mass perceptibly affect telegraph wires at times they must produce delicate vibrations that would influence a phonograph phono-graph also and enable us to hear the sounds that accompany them The con csption would seem to be logical and directly in line with tho successful experiments with electricity and sound of the last twenty years Who knows but that after awhile we may be able to hoar sun sounds as well as see sun spots |
