FINITE UNIVERSE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 745, 19 August 1929, Page 14

FINITE UNIVERSE

SUPPORT FOR CURVED SPACE THEORY NEW STAR DISCOVERIES New evidence from the hearerwhich may be used by the theotb; who hold that the universe is con ■ prised in a closed space, exhibiting; * finite volume, but with no botif daries, has been presented before t» American Association for the Advance ment of Science at the gathering 5 Berkeley, California. This evidence concerns the stt c ’ of three celestial bodies which a fainter and more distant than a: whose light has previously been an< lysed. ~ Dr. Milton Humason and Dr. Frano Pease, of Mount Wilson presented to the congress a measa ment of the greatest velocity ano in any nebula, viz., 4,900 Dl “ e V second, as exhibited by one of three bodies. All the three are moving • ’ from the earth. Speeds of the sec - and third of the observed bodies 4,600 miles and 3,100 miles a seconTwo of them are believed to u - a cluster near the pole of the - Way, while the third is neare. earth's pole star. Uei Spectrum analysis has been app to them with the aid of the K reat T . . inch reflector ot the observatoryare found to be fifty million years away from the earth. light year is equivalent to million miles. The significance of this working , is supposed to lie in the cunous tion that, where bodies are ® ~s . away from the earth, the m tant they are the faster they to be moving. This relative has been suggested as a clue structure of the universe. -„tnci On it is based a theory ties are illusory, and the displace seen in thft spectrum are not motions, but distortions in waves, which have travelled eno distances through space. Such distortions may be due ~ “curvature in space” predict Einstein in his theory of rela ' say those who discourse things as "space time” and l" 1 mensionalism.”