MODERN DISCOVERIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1, 6 May 1913, Page 3

MODERN DISCOVERIES.

Quite the most astonishing discovery of recent times is the penetration into the Great Sphinx and the opening of the Temples hidden within it. Professor Reisner of Havard University is the revealer, and he has uncovered a small temple in the head of the Sphinx from which a tunnel runs downwards to a large body. Below this again is a pyramidal tomb, thought to be that of Menes, the great King of Upper and Lower Egypt. What secrets of the past will he uncovered when the Sphinx at last speaks of that which it has guarded so long?

Another wonderful discovery—which will revolutionise the future as the preceding will throw light on the past'—has been made in chemistry. It is called “the birth of the atom,” and truly it seems nothing less.' Sir J. J. Thomson records the discovery of a “very small*' particles, moving with prodigious velocity,” very small compared With the mass of any known chemical atom, found; everywhere always identical, “the bricks of which the atom was built up.” i Sir ’William Ramsay, Professor iColMe: ] 1 and; -Mr Patterson l -tQi ihave? Uformejd helium and neon from hydrogen, i.e., to (have transmuted one. element into two others—the old alchemical claim. The next step is that there is no “matter” but only electrical energy. Dr. C. W. Saleohy writes'* '(Daily Chronicle, February 11, 1913). Modern chemistry doubts whether there; is any such thing-as -matter; it analyses the atom and .finds .it to be a transient manifestation of energy, which has a birth, a. “life,” and, a de.lth/ hut a death which 1 leaVcs ! no corpse to bury, for the energy which was the atom is restored to the general, energy of the universe, ate the melting iceberg 'is restored to the general waters of the ocean.