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Has the Sun Gone Sick'?
These Sunspots affect our Climate, Telephones and Radio
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HE Sun presents now an unusual spec- tacle, for there are three large spots on it, each of which is easily visible to the naked eye.
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By The Astronomer Royal,
Dr. H. Spencer Jones
the regular fluctuations of what We have to go back nearly, are called bright cruptions, eleven years to January 1926 when portions of the surface are to find the last occasion when seen to become intensely hot, three spots were so easily visible, and also in the fluctuations of Another, though less striking, the prominences, great jets of example occurred in July 1892. burning gases, often extending Renders of The Daily Mail for scores of thousands of miles Phone 27778-9 Stubbs Rd. will doubtless wish to see this above the Sun'e surface, and at rather unusual sight. Let me times completely ejected from give them a word of caution, the Sun with great violence. however, against looking with This recurrent "distemper" of the naked eye at the Sun when the Sun manifests itself on the it is shining brightly. Damage Earth in a variety of ways.
Magnetic storms are most fre- may easily be done to the eyes in this way.
quent when sunspots are most numerous. The compass needle At this time of the year, ht these times oscillates violent- though, the Sun is frequently ly, and telegraphic and tele- scan through thick haze na it
ANNOUNCEMENT. The wedding of Miss Soccoro Maria Botelho and Altred Victor Alvares will take, place on Saturday, February 6th., 1937, at
4 p.m. at Rosary Church, Kow- loon. No Invitations are issued, but all friends and relatives are and reception at the Club de
Wireless fading is certain- ly connected with the solar cycle. The fading is notice. able chiefly on short waves and may occur very sudden- ly, the signal strength fall- ing from normal to complete inaudibility in a few seconds.
The frequency with which these fadings occur in commer- cial short-wave transmission has increased rapidly since the last sunspot minimum.
Effect On Trees
This dot represents the Earth on the same Scale as the Sun in this photograph:
from this layer, and fading occurs when the signals are able to enter the layer and become absorbed by it.
Effects of sunspots on wea- ther have often been looked for, but the connection is obscure.. There is some evidence of in-
creased storminess and of higher temperatures when the spots
are
numerous. But so many the other factors enter into
that the making of weather evidence from different parts of the Earth is often contradictory! The connection is most clearly
as shown by the widths of the annual rings to be seen when the trunk is sawn through.
cordially invited to the wedding gets low in the sky. That is the Phonic communications are often EVIDENCE is accumulating to apparent in the growth of trees,
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1937,
THE ELECTIONS IN. INDIA India is now in the throes of electioneering campaign, polling being in progress for the returning of members to the Provincial Legislatures, created under the Government of India Act. The Congress Party is taking an active interest in the elections, although at one time there seemed every prospect that it would boycott the whole
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time to look for the spots, for At such periods, also, aurorae the light is then reduced to such are most frequently seen. an extent that it is possible to make your observations without discomfort or risk of damage.
IF
The Three Spots
But it is noticeable. that though, sometimes, a magnetic storm or an aurora can be cor- related directly with the pas- sage of a large spot across the
a regular watch is kept on face of the Sun, this is not al- the Sun, it will be noticed ways the case. The real nature that the spots appear to move of the connection between the gradually across its face. This phenomena is still very obscure. is because the Sun, like the Earth, is rotating about its axis, much slower than that of the But the rotation of the Sun is
Earth, 27 days being required| for one rotation.
Two of the spots are simi- Iar in size, covering an area of some 1,600,000,000 square miles, or about eight times the whole surface area of our Earth. The third spot Is.smaller, with an area of about six times the Earth's surface.
WE
show that the fading is due to the bright eruptions on the Sun, and it appears, in some cases at least, to occur simultane- ously with the outburst of the eruption.
The eruption apparently has some effect on the re gion of the outer atmos- phere, called the ionosphere. Short-wave radio signala are normally reflected back
WHEN TO
THEN we have set out. on a plece of muscular work or head work,
we might expect to find a steady, re-
ed effects of a number of clima- These depend on the integrat
tic factors, and it has been found, from a study of the rings of pines in both California`and. Germany, that the growth Is quickest when sunspots are most numerous, and least rapid when they are few.
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gular increase in the fatigue that the exertion tells hard again; fatigue sulted from it so much work, 50 much fatigue. But that is not the
casc.
lies up terribly fast now fast that unless the runner knows how much he is good for and has made
are the only person on the premises, you can't stand calmly aside and cal- culate your fatigue curve. There's a. necessity for action at any cost.
But such emergencies are not everyday matters.
To-morrow we
business to attend to, and the pro- are going ..to have another day's
The fatigue curve" is not straight line sloping up from one careful calculations, he is likely to be bability is that it will be just as im~. corner of the chart diagonally to the "all in" before he gets to the end. Such large spots may last for other. Instead, it goes sharply up-
Every step makes an inroad on his portant as to-day's.
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ones, which do not persist for more than a few days.
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sharp
upward turn.
have
Eleven Year Cycle THE frequency with which
spots. appear on the Sun fatigue ce running. At Arst the able to go over the course again. ergograph, an ingenious apparatus
small hanging
quality of to-morrow's work. We have done enough when we The level stage the plateau of hard, normal working power, while
if a man has covered his distance e in sight of that last costly lap.
It is time to leave
off. lost in energy, does not vary per- without touching this final turn of ceptibly is the "second
the fatigue curve, he will get rested the nature of fatigue has been made Wind."
Agreat of information about
deal You know how it is
usually in in a reasonably short time, and be avaliable recently through the long-distance
Increases very rapidly; a man
But If, instead, he has to keep on devised by Professor Angelo Mosso, waxes and wanes in a fairly re- has to push himself with all the will- until he rolls over on the ground it great Italian scientist. gular cycle, whose average power he can muster. Then all of a
may take weeks for him to get Inte By means of a length is about 11 years. They he had topped a big, new supply of
sudden it gets easier. It seems as if form again.
There are emergencies in every body's life when the merely prudent were at a minimum in 1938. energy, and he can keep running for Since then they have been apa long time without any great in thing is not the right thing. sing frequency, and this is likely pearing with a steadily increa- crease in his feeling of fatigue.
At last he reaches a point where to continue until about 1938 or 1939. They will then become less frequent until, about the year 1944, very few will again be seen.
If a house is on fire and a family on the top floor is in danger, and you
We Scots: A Talk We Understand
nurse?
weight attached ' to a cord which fastened to the tip of one finger, he passed over a pulley, and was then
was able to record in detail the re- sults of muscular effort.
go
A Costly Strain
Professor Mosso found that if you keep raising the weight until your Anger is exhausted," it will take just about two hours to rest it, that is, in two hours you can do the same amount of finger-work over again- and the least bit more.
You would imagine from this that the experiment were repeated at end of one hour Instead of two,
much.
The spots may be pictured as violent cyclonic disturbances MY dentist is an Edinburgh man | English, but if you call me a nya
and I'm from the hills of Gallo-FI shrink and shrivel before I rise occurring in the surface layers way. Far enough apart, you'd think, and hit you in the eye. (Open a 12 of the Sun. The manner in but when we must live and work in little wider, please.) which they originate and the a dingy English city with high- "Best of the lot, I think, is alalkit. you could do just half the amount of reason why they fluctuate in an bond that all the forceps and filings Yes, pretty good, pretty good. Aye,
clipped accents all about us, it's a You think not? What-gallous? work. But it is only one-quarter eleven-year cycle are by no in the world cannot brook.
he's a gallows body-hear that once That is the price of work on top of means as yet understood. From the moment I enter the sur- in London, and I wanted to throw fatigue. One unfatigued man is to appears, according to advices to
It is clear, however, that they gery his eyes light up, and I, who my arms round the fellow's neck. his work as four semi-fatigued men hand, to be an awakening In In- are one
have made some of the symptoms of chipped tooth, roll out my native Yes, nurse, that's what
excuse about a quite gowkit, I must have been to the same work,
Using all the strength you have, fcbt like you dia to a sense of possible danger periodic changes going on with secent to greet him in full glory. A when you go into an English but you can't begin to get normal results
and the by reason of the rise of Italian in the Sun. We can think of it, strange pair, we must be, my dentist cher's and ask for pope's eye steak
strain
on will-power. and nervous energy is terrific Carrying sea-power in the Mediterranean in fact, as having a recurrent and I, for although he says: "My, or a nice piece of hough.
il's good to hear your. Scots tongue "And he, poor body, can only offer A thing through on "nerve" is the fever or distemper. $300 and the Red Sea, but Nehru's
again," in goes the gng and you undercut or shin beef. (A little in,
costliest business' man can indulge my
wider-thank you!. attempt to represent British fested to us in other ways also. But he tonne English nurse day, any way. I'm sure the patient's when the stopping-point has been
The effects of this are mani- tongue is sililled.
talks, bless him, and in the "Now, I think that'll do. For to nervous make-up, and it hard to tell Some people, especially those of militarism and imperialism as For example, in periodic Hands back in amused wonder, as if wearying to get home to her family, reached that la just where the "inclining more and more to changes in the shape of the we two grown people were babies Hear that,
Wearying dividing line comes between the words the Fascist Powers" is not tenuous, outer appendage.of the who must be humoured and kept really beautiful word, a musical energy-funds avaliable for invest- accepted by the public generally. Sun, known as the corona, in amused on the nursery floor. word, a very Scots word. We Scols ment and a capital which cannot be have a lovely trick of changing ad- legitimately tampered with. If they A correspondent asserts that
jectives into verbs and nouns into get interested. In their work, they not since the Great War has In Britain has demonstrated be hear what our patient sald? She language round just to make it ex- going on sheer nerve before they "Listen to her, nurse. Did you adjectives. We'll change the whole lose sight of everything else, and are dia as a whole felt, so strongly yond doubt that she desires English would say. No, sho anid,
didn't say, 'It's painful, as you poor pressive."
realiza 1 that her security and progress India to attain. full self-govern-It's sore. No one but a
Fatigue symptoms vary greatly it towards full nationhood can only ment. The new Constitution is would say that,
rent Scot As he shows me out he is grinning different people.
happily, his eyes wide with memor- Sir Francis Galton, the eminent lie within the British Common merely one step in that direction, and, nurse-words with no English warm lilce a brother's. "It's been of restlessness A-1038 of self- "Lovely words we have in Scot ies of home, his handshake firms and statistician, says the best test is t wealth. This view conflicts but it is a definito one; and India equivalent at all. There's a beauty grand to see you again, to hear your control in small things, that is the with the attitude of Nehru, who will be serving her own interests I'm sure the patient's longing to voler. English folk can never talk symptom in different terms. Another not only declares that the new by co-operating to the full in Constitution is bound to fall, but making it a success. Fortunate ever you like. The patient has a have, yet did we talk? I said not should be so sure an effect of fatigue; asserts that the Congress Party jy, there is evidence that this is nered with English patients. Beauti- more than a dozen words, and he but it means that the resistance gates. acunner at all dentistry. I'm actin- intends to make its functioning the general view. Obstructive ful word!
W chatted merrily--to the nurse- - Za
la are down, and we become aware of this the way of Scottish exile con- sensations pouring in from all aiden verantión?
elight sensations that ordinarily we 3- Anne Blythe Prgili)," (Continued on Page 4.):
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You can be as we Scots do. They haven't got name for it is irritablilty,———
"And there's nuas, too. That's a
oli, I don't know what it means in
as difficult as possible. Buch a tactics must in the long run des Glasgow word, I think. It means- spirit is most regrettable, for feat their own purposes.
"Sadhanahan At first, it sceras strange that this Maybe they haven't. They can't undue sensitiveness to alight stimull