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STRUCTURE OF ATOMS

(Continued from Page 11.)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY ́9, 1933.

coined some twenty years ago to FARES TO FAR EAST. represent the relative sizes of the

atom (which, before theeo dis-

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coveries, had been believed to be REDUCTIONS BY THE BLUE solid), and the newly-postulated atomic nucleus, around which a crowd of satellite negative purti-

The Blue Funnel Line have decided nature of ultimate physical reali-cles were supposed to be revol ties needed revision. It was found ving. It was easy to imaging that to reduce their passenger fares to and from all ports east of Port Said. that no matter with what gas the the attraction of the positive nu The reductions vary in extent to the discharge-tube was filled, and nocleus on the negative satellites different ports, but to the Straits matter what kind of glass was would tend to keep those latter Settlements, for example, the in its walls, a similar stream of from flying off into apace-much rate representa a saving of approx❘- particles resulted. These partins the sun's attraction keeps the mately 11 per cent.

Messrs. Alfred Holt and Co. have clea wore always negatively planets revolving round it; while

made these reductions after consulta- charged, and were always of the the repulsion between two position with the P. and O. Line and the samo Bizo, about 1,800

times tively-charged nuclei would make various Continental lines running to smaller than the hydrogen atom. it impossible for them to approach the East, as a concession to those too close together, thus giving engaged in business in the Far East The Question Answered.

the effect of impenetrability. And whose financial position has Wore themp tiny particles, thea, yet a swiftly-moving particle might seriously affected by the world trade Europeans, returning a constituent of all matter? And thanage to shoot right through depression. why were they always negatively the atom, just as a comet does home on leave from the East, will thus have the benent of lower charged? Was it not possible to through the solar system. produce similar streams of posl-↓ This, then, was the picture of travelling expenses. There is no in- crease in the passenger traffic or tively-charged particles? These the atom which the physiclats revenue received which would other- and similar questions at once sug- built up for us in laborious, but wise justify the reductions that have gested themselves to the scienti-fascinating experiment: it was been made. fic minds of the time.

shown to be a miniaturo solar sys-

been

The old and now singio and return The answers to these questions tem, consisting of a central sun bass rates from London and Liver- Old Now. came quickly. Yes, it was possi-round which revolved a compil- pool compare as follow: ble to produce streams of positive-cated fleet of electrons in their ly-charged

particles—indeed, varying orbits.

The scientiste!

thoso amazing substances, the re-were even able to calculate 'very] Adon

the number of Colombo cently-discovered radioactiva ele approximately ments, radium, uranium, thorium planet-electrons in the atoms at Penang, and the rest, seemed to send out the various olements, and thus ex-

the

"Periodic famous incessantly streams of both posi-plata tively-and negatively-charged Classification", telling us why a Hongkong particles, with, never-diminishing certain metal, for example, should

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Intensity, and without ever dimin have a certain series of chemical Manija ... 102 179 04 106 Ishing In volume themselves! properties, and why it should have

Yokohama ... 100 180 100 176 Streams of positively-charged par-marked affinities with another)

These fares apply to the company's ticles could be produced, too, in a metal at a definite distance from! discharge-tube, by the simple de-it in the list of chemical elements. nine "A" class passenger vessels of addition, vice of perforating the negative Chemistry and physics seemed to 10,000 to 14,050 tons. In

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large number of the company's cargo The Quantum Theory. puzzling thing-it seemed impos- Bible to produce positively-charg

But there lurked, alast behind vessels ("C" class). Reductions have REDUCED PRICES tively-charged ones.

ed particles as small as the call this brilliant experiment and also been made in the base rates for the Inter whips. First-class passen- how produced, the positive parti-ingenious hypothesis a spectre gers only are carried. The supple- clea were always of atomic magni-whose shadow is cast to-day over ments for single-berth rooms, tude, Le. some thousands of times the whole of modern physics. This remain unaltered. greater than the negative parti-spectre is the Quantum Theory,

the topic which has chiefly ab-ing to form darkness!). clea. The reason for this we now know to be very simple. I may Borbed the recent interest of phy-

as they were before; the old perhaps anticipate any say that sicists can hardly speak here, these positive particles are atoms of this buffing problem, for the theory was caught up and expand- fuller and more com- (or something very like atoms) matter is too difficult for a popu- ed into with one or two negative particles for talk such as this, but I may plete synthesis; and modern phy- knocked out of them, leaving perhaps draw your attention to aics has found again Newton's the lesson which the history of streams of flying particles, not lu- them, of course, positively charg- natural science at all its stages deed of light, but of electricity. ed.

"Further evidence accumulated. holds for the physicist faced. as So it has over been. Nothing in These streams of particles, both we are faced today, with new and

tested by experiment and con- negative and positive, could pass apparently insoluble problems. The physics--or in life-that has betri through appreciable thicknesses of newer data, to-day as so often be- Armed by the thousand little in- solid bodies. Once it was recognized fore, seem to overthrow previous eldental accretions which go to that they were particles (and not conclusions. In every age new datit the building-up of any theory and a.wave-motion, as many European have been added thus to the facts are the real evidence for its truth. physicists had claimed), the only of experience, and the result has is ever wholly false; It always been seemingly to jeopardiza nc- logical conclusion to

later much, that no much, very that the solid bodies were tatcepted hypotheses. The fact that contains much that is true, and really solid bodies at all; in other light casts sharp shadows, for theory will overthrow.

demonstrate

And so, despite the puzzling words, that what seemed to be example, seemed to solid matter must in reality con- clearly that light could not be

much, very sist of a sort of porous network. Wave-motion; and no for cen-shadows cast at present by the

turles It was held, and hold even Quantum Theory, New Atomic Conception. by n Newton, to be a light of par-much in all that I have been de- The suggestion was at once put ticles. This view was accepted, scribing will certainly remain o forward that the atom, which up largely on the authority of New. the legacy of our age to the phy- till then had been considered as ton himself, until another great aics of the future. The changes a solid lump, might perhaps con-physiclet, Huyghens, came along to be made will be small, far wave-motion smaller, probably, than seems at alat of a tiny central core (thend showed that a larger positive particle, perhaps?) of very short wave-length would present the case; and they will also cast sharp shadows; and he take the form of deepening, rather surrounded at a relatively consi derable distance by smaller negu went on to predict astonishing than reversing past conclusions. tive particles"a fly in a cathefects such as interference frin So much one can predict without

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