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Show LOST AMONG THE STARS. H, So scientists are discussing whether the universe is ten times IH, as large as commonly believed, or made up of hundreds of "island" H universes similar to that of which the earth is a part. H. Dr. Curtis of Lick observatory holds to the theory that the H; !milky way" contains practically all the stars, all the planetary and H- diffused nebulae and the star clusters, and that the universe is : relatively small, being less than 30,000 light years in diameter and ' not more than 3000 light years in thickness. This is a statement which will be accepted by the layman as almost incomprehensible. To say that the universe is relatively small and then speak of the star clusters in the "milky way" as extending H ; through space a distance of 30,000 light years is a use of the word H small that proves confusing instead of elucidating. B ; Stars are so distant that, although light travels at 186,000 miles H ; a second, sufficient time has not elapsed since Christ was born at H Bethlehem to bridge with a stream of light one-fifteenth of the great H gap between the- most distant suns. H ! Man has not the mental power to comprehend the magnitude of H! this "relatively small' ' universe. But there are astronomers who' H assert that the "milky way" is 'but one of many spirals; that our Hj . sun and all its satellites are revolving around a greater center of H i attraction, and that there is a galaxy of stars ten or more times H : larger than this milk way. Beyond this galaxy are other universes. H 1 The thought is staggering in immensity. 1 There are rays of light coming to earth today which started on H i their journey long before the age when man was emerging from the H i darkness of a mind which could not read in the stars the wonders H : of a world controlled by a masterful hand H; ' |