"ANTI-MATTER."

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1456, 3 June 1912, Page 6

"ANTI-MATTER."

-ft ■,■:',;■ ' ■ SUGCtESTED'nE#. : F,ORCES' IN 'THE sTApg;' Startling theories, ami. discoveries withregard_ to the stars ara tho s'iilijVct of an article by Prnfpss.br,-,11,' t , 11, IMirnpr, b'f Oxford University, in: .tliesri;'s]t ■.ti.i.im'be'i , ' : 'of: "Bedrock,'" a new quarterly re.yiew of scienliiic thought. . Observations indicate that the stars- a'rp in swift movement,- and. tliat the fJld.c'r ,;i star is the quicker it- liipve.S; 'Tsii.s tion takes the breath'iiiyoy. JJd .satisfactory explnmition of it- ciiii-...yet lib offered; It has, bowever, been suggested ijia't -J'buiig stars are not subject.'lb' ■gray.itnjtibiifll' :at.-. traction, and only ;actiu'ire'tho. pi-pperfips of matter as we kno'w> ij: : latpr- iii life'.. Another suggestipiv. a'dya'iicpti is' that: there are two kinds : ai i iierft-.a,i;e two kinds of electricity.;, ai'i.d that; matter' of tho kind we knq'jf cpllecfs. tbge'iii.p'r: aiid repels "aiiti-iiiatter"^- : ;t}i'i's .striiiigp, liow,' unknown, unsubstantial -.t-h|i't;.. thoro may be not 'bisly. miitiiii.!' attraction but also mutual rpp'iilsio'n' ii.tno.'iig. the; stars. Such a plieli'ombhn.h of repnlsinn.. would help to explain (he- jrrpvriii. of i-eloeity with a star's ago, 'Th.prb' .aib, : top. otlipr facts whi.pjv .at'e'- .difficult to ex-, plain in terms of ili'o: 'forces, at -present recognised, s,uch as. tli.e (..mission, of. fails: by roniefs and of 'the cprPiiiv,by the sirn, and which point to flio oxisteiice. cf .sp.iiib mysterious agency iii; flip liiiwyrse':-