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Show Hard to Grasp Facta of the Stellar System At first the brain reels a little In the attempt to grasp the facts of the stellar system, even explained with the lucidity and exactness of which Sir Jamea Jeans la a master. From the vast extensions of tbe sky he carries car-ries ns Into the Inmost recesses of tbe stom, where the electron whirls around Its perpetual circuit several thousand million times every stcond. These numbers, says the London 8ectutor, are but dazzle painting, and It Is simpler to say that tbe electron travels as far In a second as our latest seaplane travels In an hour. Sir James Jeans has a bappy fertility In such comparisons, and forcibly strikes the Imagination when be tells at that If the carbon atom were magnified to the alze of Waterloo station, sta-tion, Its electrons would be represented repre-sented by six waaps flying round In tbe vast vacuity. All tbe rest Is emptiness; and so In the celestial spaces It Is Immense odds against any given spot being occupied. "We live tn a gossamer universe; pattern, plan and design are there In abundance, but solid substance Is rare." |