SOLAR DYANMICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1922, Page 1

SOLAR DYANMICS.

A SCIENTIST’S CLAIM

WANGANUI, Feb. 1!

During the past week a matter of sin prising importance to science lias been brought to light. Mr F. It. Field, a native of Wanganui, but now resident in Auckland, claims to have solved the great problem of solar dynamics, and lias addressed meetings held under the auspices of the Wanganui Astronomical Society, of which he is an old member. His theory is based upon a new conception of tlio forces and movements which exist in rotating liquids and gases in the spheres of which, it is maintained, any molecule must (ravel outwards in a plane at right angles with the axis, along a spiral curve which between infinitely slow and infinitely rapid rotation, varies Loin a spiral curve of infinite length to a straight line corresponding with the radius and that each molecule travels along such curve with an acceleration which exceeds that required to accord with uniform angular rotation, with a result that actual angular rotation in-, creases with the distance lrom the axis. This rotatioi varies throughout the sun according to a formula given. Intense frictional energy and heat are produced everywhere, hut especially towards the surface, by such varying rotation. It is shown how forces produce solar variation and cycles of variations, sunspots, faculie prominences, etc., with their different phases. This accelerating movement is held to lie an all important factor in nebular evolution and stellar development and in a cycle existence of solar systems. Apparently consistent reasoning explains such mysteries as retrograde and short period satellites, planetary belts, Saturn’s ling, L iemarkable growth of a plain’s crust (Jupiter’s-marking representing a stage of the process), the divergence of axis, planes, and protuberances, terrestial magnetism, earthquakes, volcanic notion, the rise and fall of the earth’s crust, the great ice ago, and the lorecasting of weather many years in advance. Jt is said that we shall he able to calculate the periods at which lands now separate were, or will he, connected, when and where islands will appear or disappear, and even the date at which the earth’s crust was completed, if not the date of the world’s actual birth. The work has some hearing upon the Einstein theory. Apparently no so-ious fault lias as yet boon found m this startling discovery, which, if sound, will prove an epoch-making event m the world’s history.