CORRESPONDENCE.

Shannon News, 29 July 1924, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

I (To tile Editor.) *?h', —A correspondent “js&linoiieus” wisnos me to nniiie uiy meaning a bh dealer, ihis extract is a cable giving, mm lus answer, it is explained by Sir E. Butiieriord“All .the world (says the Daily Chronicle) credits him wiui having solved the secret—so far as it can be solved—of electricity and radio-actiyity. Electricity is not a ‘fluid’ nor a ‘juice’; it is atomic—a. million atoms ia a row would not form a line as long as the thickness of ( a cigarette paper; yet each oi those atoms is a solar system, having an infinitesimal ‘sun’ nucleus, anu with countless planetary electrons whirling around it. In radio-activity tlie atoms break up, and power immeasurable is evolved from the changes in the infinitely small. That is the theory, in unscientific terms, of tlie mighty atom, the ‘Rutherford Atom.’” The writer “Salmoneus” could not have read between the lines of my query, “What is electricity?” If I said it was a force, he would say, What is that? and the correspondence would grow till the editor’s finality: “This correspondence must cease.”—l am, etc., f). M. O’CONNOR.