SOLAR DYNAMICS.
SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. GREAT PROBLEM CLAIMED TO BE SOLVED. Wanganui, Feb. 14. .During the past week a matter of surprising importance to science has been brought to light by Mr. F. R. Field, a native of Wanganui, but now resident at Auckland, who claims to have solved the great problem of solar dynamics, and who has addressed meetings, held under the auspices of the Wanganui Astronomical Society, of which he is an old memiber. NEW CONCEPTION OF FORCES., Mr. Field’s theory is based upon a new conception of forces and movements which exist in rotating liquids and gases in spheres of which it is maintained. Any molecule, he says, must travel outwards in a plane at right angles with the axis along a spiral curve which, between infinitely slow and infinitely rapid rotation, varies from a spiral curve of infinite length to a straight line corresponding with the radius. That each molecule travels along such curve with an acceleration which exceeds that required to accord with a uniform angular rotation, with the result that the actual angular rotation increases with the distance from the axis. This rotation varies throughout the sun according to a formula given. INTENSE ENERGY AND HEAT. Intense frictional energy and heat are produced everywhere, but especially towards the surface. By such varying rotation it is shown how forces produce solar variation and cycles of variations, sun spots, faculae prominences, etc., with their different phases. This accelerating movement is held to be an all-important factor in nebular evolution, stellar development, and in a cyclic existence of the solar systems. , MYSTERIES EXPLAINED.. Apparently consistent reasoning explains such mysteries as retrograde and short-period satellites, plavtary belts, Saturn’s rings, the remarkable growth of a planet’s crust (Jupiter’s marking representing a stage of the process), the divergent' of axes, planes, and protuberant- terrestrial magnetism, earthquakes, Jeanie action, rise and fall of the earth’s crust, the great ice age, and the forecasting of weather many years in advance. It is said that we shall be able to calculate the periods at which lands, now separate, were, or will be, connected, when and where islands will appear or disappear, and even the date at which the earth’s crust was completed, if n,ot the date of the world’s actual birth. The work has some bearing upon ■ the Einstein theory. AN HISTORIC EVENT. Apparently no serious fault, has as yet been found in this startling discovery, which, if sound, will prove an epochmaking event in the world’s history.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1922, Page 6
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414SOLAR DYNAMICS. Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1922, Page 6
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