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Show UNIVERSITY 1 NEWS GOD AND THE STARS The God of today is a greater God in the opinion of man than he was 2000 years ago, because modern science has partially reveal re-veal the incomprehensible gran-eour gran-eour of the works of diety," said Dr. A. H. Harding, world-famed astronomist who lectured at the University of Utah last week, who is one of the few modern men of science who are also men of religion. Attempting to give his audience some conception of the size of "creation," Dr. Harding explained the size tf the world, the solar system, and the universe in terms the speed of light is able to travel -It takes eight minutes for the sun's light to reach the earth, .the astronomer explained, but the nearest star is almost four light-years away. In the milky way, however, are stars whose light could not reach earth in less than 1000 years. From the earth may be seen heavenly bodies called "spiral nebulae," the astronomer stated, which are round plate-shaped collections col-lections jof stars and atmosphere. According to the latest astronomical astronom-ical hypothesos, our universe is one of the sespiral nebulae, and the milky way is an optical illusion. il-lusion. On the earth we occupy a position comparable to being at thai Vi!i nf an immnnoii nThoal made of stars. When we look out along the spokes of the "wheel" to the rim, we see more stars than we look out right angles from the spokes on the other side. When we look at the rim of the "wheel of stars," we are looking up at what we call the milky way,, where the stars are thickest, thick-est, from whence it takes more than 1600 years for light to travel trav-el to the earth. When realize the immensity of the universe, which includes the milky way. we have the clue to understanding the true size of "creation," because beyond the milky way may be seen many more spiral nebulae which are assumed to be other universes like ours. 'Tt is facts like these that make the God of the modern world a more wonderful being than the God of bibical times," the astronomist astron-omist stated. UTAH ON THE AIR "The ancient man in "Utah" will be featured m a radio program over K. S. L. Thursday at 6 p. m. when the University of Utah student stud-ent radio actors present the second sec-ond in a series of 15 regularly scheduled programs. The anthropology department, under the direction of Elmer Smith, is preparing the program and it will include informative material about the early Indian tribes in this section, according (Continued on Page 5) University Notes (Continued from Page 1) to Gail Plummer, speech instructor instruc-tor and manager of the broadcast series. Inaugurated last year, the series ser-ies will feature material gathered from the files of 15 University departments and will use student acting talent as far as possible. The program will porbably run through June, Plummer said, and will represent the following departments: de-partments: biology, English, physics, phy-sics, medical, history, psychology, psychol-ogy, speech, business, law, art and education. The radio shows will omit technical tech-nical material and will be leveled at the average listener. The programs are designed to acquaint ac-quaint the people of Utah with the interesting and unusual things going on around them. The material will be presented on the theory that the state's own people know very little of what actually exists in Utah and that a more complete knowledge will be welcomed by them. Purposes of the broadcasts are to revive interest in-terest in the sciences which por-tain por-tain to the State's general informative infor-mative culture and to stimulate personal research among potential Utah educators. Recording of each 30-minute program will be made in order to preserve the information and dramatic dram-atic qualities for future educa-tionalmeasures educa-tionalmeasures in the department giving the broadcast and for speech students to study. A new recording and reproducing . laboratory, lab-oratory, recently completed on the campus, will facilitate a complete use of the transcriptions it was pointed out. |