Show SAYS SUN AND STARS ARE OVER BILLION YEARS OLD princeton astronomer accepts theory of princeton N J ten thousand billion years probably pro bubly are no lunger longer than the life of a denry norris russell bead of the tile department of ast astronomy in princeton university said ashen ben he voiced ills his agreement with the theon re centi advanced by professor addington and doctor jeane jeans Ln anglish glish astronomers tile sun hag has un it hone shone for more than a billion jears drufes r Itu stell eald said illi as its professor does but flint mutter matter in the in perlor of stars nia ilia be con averted into energy to supply theoe these gosei the life of a star pm pro tilly lubly ex aeed ten thou thousand billion ers ears linking accepted a sarious eer loiis difficulty regarding the origin of hie tire solar stem 8 if Is renio eil I 1 lie I 1 e beet best hypothesis so far Is that tip umes that planets one their exist ence nee to eruptions froin live pull produced by tie the close tit prout h of tit hooili er star to the lie eun sun I 1 ills his ui its firt fir t suir rested by Pro probest fest rs hallit alin und 1 Moul moulton trin of tin the Un herH of ahl cago professor ir bluell explained how hov it could ie le demonstrated that flint the ap of one star close enough to nether another to cause eruptions would be an excessively rare occurrence if the furs have been shining for only oily a few hundred million years few indeed would have planetary system around them then he eald said adding that if it ag as professor eddleton ddlan ton suggest suggests the stare stars have existed times lunger li than thie this it Is 13 probable that large numbers of stare stars are attended by planets ie e ahne no hope at present of finding out which A ones are the centers of such systems for the planets are re so email small in comparison will 10 the inter stellar distances that no human means of observe ion could detect tile ones like those in our astern stem if they re aed aled about ayen the nearest star professor Iti Ksell said among it H lache of planetary systems there would probably be planets which aich ere potentially bevin the tire prope ture und and suitable supplies of air lr and A water ater ve can hardit say what lis inces there ire are that life would mould ac so tualin exist on such planets planet because ue A e know virtually nothing of how ilaw life 4 r on the earth the forms whick life take in a another planet an art of course of pure ai 14 ln n it inay may be added that although the ne new point of view makes it probable enough that life has or will exist in many places in the sidereal elue reni we tie are not yet in a position lon ti I 1 say how ho many ninny of these would occur at the tire same time it Is fairly likely that the time during which hichi adv planet Is actually the he abode of life lat 1 but a small fraction of the life of the star about which aich it revives |