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THE. CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER

1955.

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the will be first prospectors to the Moon and other worlds of the solar system? And what will

these pioneers learn there?

by Dr. L. R. SHEPHERD

a Harwell atom-physicist who is chairman of the British Interplanetary

Society

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Our descendants In highly mechanised civilisation will be still more accustomed to life under artificial conditions. And nothing And they may remarkable in the possibility of having to pass their lives in renied cities on alien planets,

Where will the colonists po Ara?

Certally the objective of

man's

The first landings will be limited SCIENTIFIC SUR-

first

Interplanetary VEYS by amall parties arly vital factor in space Bight voyages will be tire Moon, not

the Moon would be #11 the

an only because it is nearest to us carrying

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15 small already started by robot ideal stepping-stone in voyales but also because

between the earth and other world, with a mere eightieth of vanguards.

planels. Bases of this type will the mass of the earth, and the man's demand fairly large permanent effort of a rocket landing and Ther

pel knowledge of the planets-about communities

them. taking off again in its gravila- present distant So next will come the COLON- tional field in all the smuller as

ISTS. Theirs will be the fan- little

inally formidable Lask establishing

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what h observallons 10t will certainly be tremendous.

On the spot they will be able

to operate

settlements

to Manly an delal how these utterly alien surroundings, (my terint, worlds are constituted

Just how alien? In what

will these 315-

and how they began, Maybe circumstances

they will discover Hving organ- trepki pioneers be required in

live and build and prosper?

| isnis, indenting that the range

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of conditions under which He is possible as wider than has <lis- en supposed. Such a

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The Moon colonisia will have the task of establishing settlements in utterly alien surround- ing. By the process of adaptatlon, to meet the problems of survival, they will develop new and virile society, technology, and science. They will have to provide themselves with /

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-And after the Moon...through

With

the

'Light Barrier'.

by Dr. ALAN. HUNTER

of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society

terrestrial organisms Ultimately it is the irresistible So the interplanetary colonists passion of an eternally questing will have to provide themselves spirit which has hitherto found with hermetically-sealed build- its expression in the conquest

Artificial satellites fockets started dropping about temperature quite unattainable deep seas, even cities, perhaps of high mountains, ings and

our ears and we had to revise off earth except by using nuclear It is this planned for 1937, with travel to under domes

artificial and polar lec-flclús, and i

reactions. Moon predleted os within our opinions. unlamable urge without which the caverns. materials on

never have emerged ir ilte ume, it is not too early Such conditions might appol he would planets aradi shipping

from his eaves and tree-lops to 25: "Where next after the many of us. But remember that

planets?" many people live under highly that is driving man towards the clad possibilities might be found.

Will artificial surroundings even to conquest of spacę, And a base on our own Moon.

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BEHIND IT All: An astronomer priost faces the fundamental dilemma of overy mind that peers into space and says:

This Need Not Kill Your Belief In God

THE

ما

a hither THE great dilemma of the Revelation gives us

Space Are

already kind of certainty in the fact

of the Creation," Enawing at men's minds: can our religions beltefa be recon- ciled with our Increasing scientifle knowledge?

man ever reach

As our knowledge of cuclear Increases, more and physics more power will become avail- able to us. At present it is used with fantastis, insmetency. Only

Our own Bur is a pretty typical star at a white heat 110,000 degrees F:) and it would for be asking

trouble the

What la planet Mercury docs. Compared with the distance tiny fraction of the potential approach it even as close as the

the inside onergy

quite possible is that the future to the stars, planetary distances nucleus is used in the atom interstellar explorer will And -enormous as they are by bomb, and cn even smaller ordinary

standards are almost fraction of the energy in the infinitesimally small.

hydrogen mucleus is used in the

uranium

Upper limit

The nearest stor la so far H-bomb. away that the mile becomes ludicrous as a unit of measure-, ment. Its distance from

us is 25,000,000,000,000 miles. Nobody can appreciate a string of zeros like that, so astronomers use as a yardstick the distance a light ray covers in a given interval of time.

50 we

planets circling round the stars. evidence to show that this is

We have indeed already some

the case.

Not that we can hope to see anything so small as a planet at stellar distances. But it was YOU may well ask: Why this noticed, early in the late war, I emphasis on the speed of light? that two of our close neigh- Has it come significance of its bours among the stars were Each was own apart from its convenience behaving peculiarly.

In quoting large distances? The found to be weaving from side its motion through Light travels at 188,000 miles answer of modern physics is: to side in

It is believed to set a space in just the way that would a second. A ray of light from Yes. the earth would therefore reach natural upper limit to attainable be expected if it were being the Moon in just over a second, speeds. Nothing, it is thought, tracted from the straight and can travel faster than 180,000 arrow path by the gravitational say the Moon is rather

If it did, the pull of a large planet circling more than a light-second away. miles a second,

whole theoretical structure of periodically round it, Using the same scale, the sun is

would come nearly nine light-minutes away, modern physics

the nearest star is over toppling down, Well, it wouldn't

be the first time, four light-years away.

The modern theory that pets

Father Treanor believes t Is a matter of the right under- standing of Genesis. He says There is a man working in that Genesis is considered to

Oxford office

bo who tiny

bistorical document, An symbolises this dilemma. "but that is not to say that

Bui words or style are the same as would be used today.”

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Father Patrick Treanor In the Roman Catholic priest who

A Lac

13

full-time scientifle

EVIDENCE

astronomer at the university jobservatory, He looks at the

110 argues, heavens

coldly

In principle, through the

be no discrepancy analytical juns of a telescope, there can

between two

which truths the same nasret. How does he, a religious stem from scientist, square the accounts What he means is this; "God, of the Creation In

as author of the universe, has with the scientific explanation given us certain information. of the origins of the universo?

REVELATION

Genesis

"Man, who is created by God, has found evidence which has been provided by God. There can, in fact, be no con- flct."

Father Treanor, a trim 35- year-old, settles more fortably in his wooden chair. and says: "Really, there is no discrepancy from any point of the view. Scientllo evideme lay-

Put to Father Treanor the bellef of some scientiels that universo spontaneously

Still unknown

EVEN

the

Interstellar

Long chase

a physical limit to possible TF this is the correct explana- speeds is a pretty good theory, tion the future space traveller- but pretty good theories have a may well and planets-perhaps way of being superseded by habitable ones at his Journey's better oner. The theory that end.

+

I traveller could travel at the the sun goes round the earth Even at that he can still be specd

must of light, then he

just once a day was a perity good far from boastful about his face a four-year journey at the theory-It lasted 15 centuries achievements: He will have very least. And the speeds but

but it gave way to a better one. penetrated only insignificantly

There contemplated for journeys inside

may be

into space as it is revealed by the solar system are 10,000 times barrier" analo

analogous to the

nd modern telescopes. A few dozen"

just round the smaller than the speed of light. barrier which loomed to large in light-years is There is at present no known the accodynamics of a few years corner to astronomers. Our own. means by which objects such as ago, but there may not. And Milky Way system is 100,000 fockets can be accelerated to Crven there i

is, well, to the light years across, and is only speeds approaching that of light. traveller of the future, whose one of countless such clusters of But it has been done already knowledge enables him to speed stars, scattered uniformly in

as the vehicle

spiral for single sub-atomic particles up

to even half the space, that we see as in the laboratory. evolved over million, of years

A daunting prospect of a long: ours the theory of a creation from a vast cloud of gas..

revolutionary speed of light, there will be nebulae. Although some

stars no more than 10 years

Ho.. Father Treanor is not per- discovery, must be made before off. He might think the game chase for the space-mant

might be forgiven for deciding turbed. "Who put the mu

this knowledge could be applied worth the candle.

As for conditions at the far to stay at home and bulid..... thero?" he asks,

to space travel, there is nothing

After end,

speak of bigger and better telescopes for in principle against it. "Creation is the making of

all, 11 years ago most of us travel to the stars we do not, space exploration in, comfort, “And yet and yet man does would have asserted with con of course, contemplate going any not finally give up any struggle. fidence that there was no known closer to a star than the planets Who will be bold enough to say means by which rockets could do to our own sun. The star the stars are for ever beyond be sent outside' the earth's are at temperatures ranging our grasp? atmosphere.

V2 from about 4,000 degrees F., a

of the universe at a definite time

distinct from # which had existed universe. for all eternity.

"Bolence is trying to estab- something out of nothing. Bo Ush empirically something long ma that tot is preserved which is not fully within one can, to a very long way Bonnes. The kind of know-' with bedre

selcaliste

that comes from the theories,"

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