LAWS OF CREATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1922, Page 9

LAWS OF CREATION.

* NEW THEORY EVOLVED. M l Sydney, Sept. 27. A now theory of creation has been evolved by Lord Clifford. F.G.S., F.C.S., at one time a resident of Tasmania, who is again visiting Australia. If the theory is established, it may supplant that pronounced by Eirtstein, according to Lord Clifford. “It seems to me,” he said, “that the Einstein theory is only a modification of another phenomenon of which we are daily acquiring more and more evidence.”

Lord Clifford is averse to laying down a hard and fast theory until investigations have been made more complete but its main outline is that all matter has jbeen produced by the shortening of wave-length per inch of light or ether, owing to explosion of light or ether currents meeting from opposite directions. “I have been able,” he said, “mathematically to establish an index ratio of all matter and psychic forces in relation to the total wave length of light or ether, which may solve many probtem.s in organic and inoraanie chemistry. I have also been working for the last four years, in conjunction with Dr. Benjamin Moore, on the evolution of organic out of inorganic matter, and it is mainly owing to suggestions of mine that Dr. Moore achieved definite results 12 months before they were likewise achieved in different manner by Professor Bally, of I^iverpool I ’. Lord Clifford’s work was taken up by the presidents of the English Zoological and Geological Societies. Tn 1920 the Evolution Society was founded as the result of some of Tx>rd Clifford’s work by Dr. Moore, late physicist at Oxford, who died last March, and Professor Bickerton. well known in Australia and New Zealand. Of that society Lord Clifford is now president, and is touring Australia mainly with the object, he says, of founding branches of the Society throughout Australia. He has succeeded in starting branches in Perth, Adelaide, and Hobart.

Lord Clifford contested the Federal seat of Franklin (Tasmania) in 1903, against the present member, Mr. McWilliams. Prior to that he was engaged in sheep-farming in New Zealand, and took a prominent part in the public life of the Marlborough Province. He crossed to Tasmania in 1890, and engaged both in business and farming. He succeeded to valuable estates and to his title upon the death of the late Lord Clifford, and returned to England.