Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-09-04 | Page 34 | Atom is World of Planets; Star Distances Unmeasured

Atom Is W World orl l of Planets Star Distances Unmeasured BV Dr Famous French Scientist PARIS p Sept 3 3 Measurement nt of the positive core coro of oC the electron the tho smallest known object which has baffled baC- baC baffled fled tIed scientists for years has been by a bod body of eminent French scientists after Arter a a. lonG lone period of ot the most moat painstaking and difficult re research re- re search Their Their- experiments revealed the tho fact tact that tho the atom Is a a. world compos composed cd of oC an infinite number of oC planets revolving at a a. tremendous speed around a acore core called the tho I live tl Coro core cora or ot noyau positive Th The Tho figures contained In this article arc aro positively staggering to the imagination tion The Tho mite the smallest of oC known animals before the Invention of tho ho microscope had a volume less than a a. cubic millimeter But Dut tho microscope shows that a cubic millimeter of at rotten rotten rotten rot rot- ten stone Is composed of oC more than shells of ot fossil animals A AI I I drop of at pure water contains about But that is not all the all the head of or a apin apin apin I pin contains eight billion atoms The atom ha has been measured precisely precisely and has a diameter equal to one ono ton ton ten millionth mil mil- of or a millimeter Some recent scientific researches conducted In Franco France have o established the fact that tho ho atom Is an entire world formed of an nn Infinite number of or planets called d electrons charged with a negative electricity The They gravitate grav grav- at nt an excessive rate of or speed around a fixed central star charged cd with a a positive electricity which scientists scientists call the tho po positive core coro core The measurement of ot tho the electron and positive positive post post- tive coro core has baffled battled tho the scientists for tor several years Tho The diameter of ot the tho electron Is times smaller than tho the atom W We Ve e have not yet come to the smallest small small- st est known n object Some recent re researches no- no searches have havo shown that It Is tho the positive core core This noyau has a adin din diameter meter 2000 times Umes' smaller than ihan a millimeter COUNT IE EliThe Eli EM r. r The Tho mite could contain 1000 sextillion sextil- sextil lion llon of ot sextillions of ot positive cores 1 f I. I e. c e This th then n is the smallest object known to scientists be besIdes besides besides be- be sides which his majesty majest mon man with Ills his huge body body- has truly the appear appear- appearance ance Anco of something Infinitely great and Important But hut here the astronomers wish to take tako a hand to humble mans man's arrogance arrogance arro arro- gance fearing such a a. comparison would woula would make mako him much too conceited The They In their turn with telescopes tho the size sUo of ot cannon took up the tho quest I for the infinite It Is la difficult war they wage on the front known as the Milky Wa Way What gains In Sn territory do their most recent announce The They do not speak In terms of oC miles but rather calculate distance by fey the tho speed of oC light miles per per second sec see ond or seven times the distance around the earth at tho the equator Our yellow sun a mediocre grain of ot amber In the tho thoun un universe I C 18 0 Is only eight ht minutes distant dis- dis tant from our earth for n a rn ray of or light Tho The Journey journo becomes muc much longer AX when hen It Is a a. question of at going going- to the nebulous Orion Orton whoso whose light takes years ears to reach our planet But what of ot tho the clusters clusters' of ot stars composed of oC swarms of ot crowded suns suns' which the giant telescopes now reveal The nearest cluster Omega the he Cen- Cen I is so eo far tar distant that its light requires 1000 years ears to reach the earth earth earth-at at a n speed remember of at miles per second THAT I IS G. 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G Yot Yet the tho astronomer only onh smiles and says that is nothing Nothing Tho The light of ot those stars start beg began n Its long journ Journey when tho the human race raco was In Its Infancy when men lived In caves cs with 1 but stone stono Implements for tor defense defonse and the chase All the history history his his- tor tory of or our civilization has unfolded between the da day the ray of o light left leCt those stars and the day It arrived on our earth after traversing miles mUes square Such distances stagger the Ima l- l nation But greater have been dis dis- covered The record so far Is held by some fixed fIed stars called nebulous from which a a. 10 ray of ot light takes eight to ten million years to reach us UR Thc They are only tO miles distant J Thus Thus' has ha- modern scientific research determined for tor tho the time limo being t two o In Infinites finites the finites tho infinitely small aman and the Infinitely large larKe The earth earth and even on man sink Into insignificance besides besl such figures as these