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Show ' i Prof. Maiorana Declares Experiments Upset Gravitation Laws. ROME, Sunday. Oct. 36. Newton's theory of gravitation, as attacked by Professor Maiorana. today before a meeting of prominent scientists here. He declared experiments he had performed per-formed had unset the hitherto accept ed laws governing the motions ot celestial ce-lestial bodies. Newton's theory while hitherto considered con-sidered absolute, h? only an approximate approxi-mate hypothesis, accordlne to Professor Profes-sor Maiorana. who supports this assertion as-sertion by showing that a ball of lead rioating in mercury becomes slightly lighter. From this the professor deduces four things: First, that bodies have both a true and an apparent mass, the true mass of the sun being double tne apparent ujubb, Second, that the stars attract other bodies with forces entirely different from those thus far admitted ad-mitted to exist. Third, that the solar heat of stars Is generated by the force of gravitation emanating from interior inter-ior strata. From this he argues thp solar system has had an im-mensely im-mensely longer life than has been believed. Fourth that the evolution of the world has been closely linked to the phenomonen which he has discovered Or Maiorana explains by this mesne the fact that all stars are more or less luminous and claims that his theory will bring about a revolution in astro-physical astro-physical science. |