Ogden Sun | 1905-12-05 | Page 7 | Old Theory of Earth's Origin

upset by a professor in the chicago university chicago dec 2 in an at the opening cession of tho central association of science and mathematics teachers yesterday professor thomas crowder Char oberlin of the university of chicago outlined his recently announced accretion theory of the earths origin which if accented hy scientists will overthrow the so called hypothesis and do away with most of the ideas commonly held asto the origin it the earth and other planets according to the nebular hypothesis or la place theory which has been hold tor over a century the earth and the other planeta originally were masses of molten matter thrown off from alie sun by its whirling motion and gradually cooled to their present condition this theory professor cham berlan attacks on the assumption that the sun never had a whirling velocity sufficient to throw off such bodies professor theory is that a disturbance was caused in our sun by the near approach of or collision with some other sun which drew off projections of nebulous matter from our sun and gave them a rotary motion by its own attractions as it passed cheso particles of matter then gradually gathered together to form the planets the internal heal of the earth says professor chamberlin developed by compression as the body flew the theory that the moon once had an atmosphere ho asserts must also be given up the meeting of the association Is attended by teachers of science and mathematics from the central states