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magnetism. On the other hand, ether, extending through all space, whs im ponderable, and they must, dert, admit that there was something which they called mutter and which was not subject to Newton's law of gravitation.
In the Physics Section of the British Associations in Ginsgow, Lord Kelvin read a paper on "The absolute amount of gravitational matter in any large volume of interstellar, space. At the The sun, atare, planets, and meteoric outset he remarked that he might say stones were all ponderable, but ani with absolute decision that there was utom implied that there was something Batteria the universe which was not else. Our universe "was a very small: subject to the law of gravitation. affair after alt-cccupying a very small There was ether, and they were all non- portion of space, of which latter ustro- vigged, with Profeser Rücker, that į nomers knew very little, although it ether was amtter. But they were also extended to 3000 million millions of kilometros. According to Green's theory at the boundary of many large space drawn in space there would be`n ! force due to the interior matter, Work
forced to say that the properties of the molar matter were not to be looked for as Lesulting froin forces between atoms and matter, between ether and ether, or watter and other. They were not ing this out in our universe the amount absolutely excluded from the idea of the of matter could not be more than a possibility of there being a portion of Phonsand willion times the size of the spar occupied by other boyoad which sun. It had been calculated by New- there was absolute vacuum. That was comb that there were 100 million stars thinkable, but he did not believe that visible, but he calculated that there any selontifie bine considered it in the were 1000 millions, equal in mase to 1000 millions of our saus. The verison, slightest degree proliable. If ether ex- tended through all space, then it was why our firmament was not ablaze-- certain that ether could not be subject one glowing surface of sun-was that to the law of inutual gravitation be the 1000 million sans had not been, tween its parts, because if it were sub- as it wore, set alight at once, and their ject to mutual attraction between its light evaid not cogo witlán our sphere parts its equilibrium would be unstable, at the same time. But even though and if that occurred in the slightest de there were 1000 willion suns in the gree the force of gravity would be so universe, they would not occupy more great that there would be an enormous than twenty-seven, thousandths of the containing pressure. Ele differed from space struck by a line from the eye Professor Bücker when the President directed into space. Then, na to the said that continuity of matter implied matter in the universe, it was equal to absoluto resistance to compression, 10,000 million of kilometres, ethrep times the mass of the molecules of krgen. It seemed probable that there
They had no right to bar condensation
as a property of ether. While admit ting ether not to have any alounatic was a time when the whole matter of the universe was atouis-not afery structure, it was postulated as a matter cloud or a lautnous mist. The time which performed certain functions, and came when the atome became denser, which might have properties allowing it until the density of gas was reached to perform other functions. If is had and that was followed by the density of a liquid, and next followed by that
rigidity enough for the vibration of of meteorie stones and fragments. light, they had no right to say that it Dr. Tarmor pointed out that modern was absolutely uncompressible. If sul physical theories, which compelled them ciently great pressure all round could to revise the old actims of the universe,
were coincident with Lord Kelvin's) diniziate the quantity of ether in a cer- career, and most of them had been tain space thea etuer from surrounding started by bin and carried on by his spare could come in towards the iden pupils.
After some discussion, a vote of shrinking surface. If ether was not thinks was given to Lord Kelvin for infinitely incompressible that explained his important paper,
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