IS THE EARTH GROWING HOTTER?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 115, 12 June 1909, Page 4

IS THE EARTH GROWING HOTTER?

One liv one Hi" 01.l settled .beliefs of r I M-ii'Mliils iui' giving nay Id now and |-| cnHroh- dilVercni. ones. J Thnt 111.- earth wis growing cooler r i with «gc lias lung been mi accepted r | dogma. At lirsl, we were taught it w.i; , mi in.-.tindcsceiit mass, tlien a ball ol i_' molten nutter, ujion the untsiile of which, ilurinir millions of vcars, a s'olid ', I t-iust nas gradually formed, ami this ~ cooling process, it used to be alleged. , I has been going oil ever since. !| lIHAT iMttmWES KXKKIiY. } lint now th.'i> fh'eory is being ipies- . Honed bv sunli eminent geologists as < Professor .loly mid Mr. Ktrutt. amongst i other*/. Not only, they say, is the earth . '■\nl growing: cooler with age, lint it is . actually growing hotter, at all events. I in its interior. Tlw airent re-vionsiWe for this Is . radium. There is far -more of this beatI producing sufchiieo in existence thu-i is necessary for the restoration of such limit 'n* could poiwihly be In>>t by liciuz I dissipated into spice. Consequently | flbere uiiH be a steady acoumulatio.i 'if bea.t, cwrially in file deep-seated core, where (here is no pontile chance of its J escape to tile distti'nt surface. Hut heat produce; energy. And energy, if it e'annot find an outlet, is bound -ooner or hler to overcome and | sb.il.ter that which controls it and holds jit in ihr.ill. WHEN" TITK WORM) EKH.ODES. ' la oilier word;, the world will some ' I day explode like a gigantic hninilislioll. ' and its disintegrated fragments, pro- ' iecleil on all siilesTnto s]iai>t\ ■will either form a innv grono of acteioids, .similar lo,Hint «.\:.?h exists between liars and ' Jupiter, or else they will ,1... nUniotr-d . to. and full upon, some of the other ! iibiiiel?'. irilh result.; di-istroiß to their ' inha'bi.tints. sunposinn; itheni to bo inhabited, .And all.this liccaaso uranium, in its ' demy, •rivi-s rise to radillin. which gives liirtli to boat, which produces energy, '' which, must (hid an ou'fclet somewhere. ' somehow,—Home paper, ? " '5