THE SUN'S HEAT OUTPUT
A SCIENTIST'S DECLARATION..... fßec. August 27, 7.50 p.m.) London, August 2G. At tho British Association ' meeting, the most outstanding' declaration was a statement by Professor Aldington, president of th'o Physical Sect'on, that Mio sun caii ma.infain* its output: of heat for fifteen billion years. This estimate is based on .the com'cntion that the sun and stars do not depend for their heat upon contraction, • as maintained in the nelmholb and Kelvin theories, but upon some vast-reservoir of subatomile energy. Professor Eddington declared tha\! ; the sun must dato back to a tiiue. so rumote that there is no limit to. estimates, of tho earth's age.—"The Times."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 287, 28 August 1920, Page 7
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109THE SUN'S HEAT OUTPUT Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 287, 28 August 1920, Page 7
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