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When Sir Isaac Newton attempted to account for the revolutions of the heavens on the predication of the earth's convexity and the law of attraction, comparatively nothing was known of that field of physics now denominated electro-magnetics. We now know that bodies are attracted or repelled according to their electric and magnetic fortification and bombardment. It is a fact known to belong to physics, that everything in motion will generate energy, and that magnetism and electricity are generated by motion. Were the earth in motion, as claimed by the astronomers, rotating upon its axis at the rate of twenty-five thousand miles in twenty-four hours, as it would be at the equator according to the Copernican system of astronomy, it would generate an incalculable amount of magnetism and electricity. It would generate a greater quantity in its orbital motion, yet the generation of the energies known to be operative throughout the universe, has not been attributed to the motions of the heavenly bodies.
Astronomers have reduced the various hypotheses of the source of the sun's energies, to Helmholtz's theory of contraction. It is admitted that this is only an hypothesis, but so far regarded as the most reasonable one. This is founded upon Lane's "law," that a gas contracting by the force of its own gravity will rise in temperature until it ceases to be a perfect gas. There are no known conditions or circumstances under which a gas will contract by its own gravity; hence Lane subjected the gas to pressure, or its equivalent, which he assumed to be equal to its own gravity, according to the operations of gravity as found to obtain under artificial conditions.
Helmholtz's "law" is that the sun contracts by the force of its own gravity; and it is maintained by men as prominent as Newcomb and Young, that the sun is rising in temperature. It does not radiate its energies equal to the increase of temperature, and therefore the sun will continue to increase in temperature for thousands of years before there will be any diminution of its radiations. Let us see how this "law" looks in good colloquial English. The sun contracts by its own gravity; it gets colder by contraction, for cold contracts and heat expands. As the sun contracts and therefore gets colder, it becomes hotter. This is obvious, for an increase of temperature is an augmentation of heat, Professor Comstock to the contrary notwithstanding. Now as the rise in temperature increases the size of a body, it follows that the sun is increasing in size while it is diminishing in bulk. We employ the term bulk, as meaning the same as size. The sun grows hotter by growing colder; it grows larger by growing smaller; this in plain English is a fair statement of the "scientific" theory of the sun's energy.
Now, as no motion can obtain without the generation of energy, would we not better account for the energies of the physical universe on the known fact that motion is the only source known for the production of energy? If we take the ordinary static glass generator we develop magnetism, which is reduced to electricity, and this may be reduced either to light or heat, or to both. Why does not this law apply in Nature? It is not an assumption to say that the motions of the heavenly bodies, the motions which we observe throughout Nature, including the heavens, produce the energies which they radiate.
Importance of Explanation of Orbital and Axillary Motions.
Will the astronomers attempt to tell us where the energy is derived that moves the heavens, including the earth, and what becomes of the energy originating in these motions, according to the Copernican system of astronomy and Newton's law of gravitation? In the generation and motion of electricity there are two distinct fluids—one positive, the other negative. One of these currents is acid and the other is alkaline. They move over the wire in two opposite directions. One is the core of the motion, the other is the sheath. They move over the wire without generating visible heat, but when they move through a resisting medium, as in the carbon tips, combustion takes place and the substance which furnishes the resistance is consumed. This principle has a universal application.
We are constantly confronting the question: "Why does the earth increase in temperature as we penetrate its surface?" The question is generally propounded upon the assumption that the center of the earth is a molten mass, therefore the question is propounded on the basis of ignorance. It is claimed by the later investigators, that this is an untenable hypothesis; it is an exploded theory. We answer this question by stating the fact that the energies generated in the earth, which are anodic, meet the energies generated at the center and moving toward the earth, which are cathodic, and that as the substances of the earth furnish a resisting medium, heat is consequently generated. It does not follow that the heat continues to increase to a sufficient distance to produce combustion. So far, it has never been claimed that the modus operandi of gravity is known. Does the force belong to the mass, or does it belong to the medium through which the mass is passing? Is it a pull or is it a push? It is not pretended that any of these questions have been answered. It follows that the law of gravity is, therefore, unknown to the so called scientific world.
If we apply force to an enclosed cylinder and thus exhaust the air, we produce what is denominated a vacuum. It is impossible by any means yet applied, to create a perfect vacuum. To exhaust the air, it requires a certain amount of applied energy. The assumed pressure upon this vacuum is in exact proportion to the amount of applied energy to create it. The physicist calls this so called pressure of atmosphere upon the vacuum "weight or gravity." The pull of the air-pump has deprived the air of a specific force which acts upon the vacuum in physics correspondentially to the deprivation of a human being of his vital force, when his weight is sensibly increased. Admitting the existence of an atmosphere of hydrogen above our own atmosphere, it is like taking a certain amount of common atmosphere and carrying it up into the hydrogen above us and weighing it relatively to the hydrogen atmosphere, or as if taking water from its own level into our atmosphere and weighing it relatively to our atmosphere. In creating a vacuum, we destroy the normal relations and activities of the air and obtain very different conditions from those naturally belonging to the atmosphere. All of the power exerted in exhausting the air with the air-pump, is pulling just as much while the vacuum remains, as during the action of the pump.
The theory of gravity founded upon such a flimsy assumption as this, does not furnish a very satisfactory basis for the predication of a universal system of science. That Newton's so called law of gravitation accounts for the motion of the heavenly bodies, even on the basis of the commonly accepted astronomy, is the veriest humbug, for there can be no question of the fact that the power which acts to prevent the solar system from collapsing, as it would on the basis of Newton's ridiculous formula, is just as constant as the law of revolution. This law is the essential coordinate of gravity; it is as persistent as gravity, and has never been defined outside of Koreshanity. The Copernican system of astronomy is totally abrogated by Koreshanity, therefore all phenomena must be interpreted on altogether new principles.
The Source and Destiny of Gravity.
An analysis of the law of gravity must define its source, determine its destiny, expound its cause, and determine its relation to its coordinate law, that of levity. At the points in space where the metallic and mineral substances in Nature have no weight,—these are their relative normal positions and their planes of rest,—there is the greatest activity. This activity produces the waste and the supply of the plane. For instance, let us take the gold stratum, the outmost lying stratum of the cosmic rind. It is vital by virtue of the fact that its molecules are constantly changing to gold energy. As soon as the molecule has performed its function as a molecule of gold, it is converted to its own energy—spirit, so to speak, and it immediately takes its flight to its own levic center. The descending energy rushes in to fill the place of the disgorged molecule. The descending energy materializes as rapidly as the liberated energy gives place to the new deposit. Between the energy flowing down to fill the vortex and the energy making its escape, there are induced electro-magnetic resistance and repulsion. The levic energy is pushed and pulled toward its own center of levity and attraction. A corresponding and coordinate action is taking place at the positive end or pole of the gravo-levic axis.
The energy of every distinct substance is en rapport with its material coordinate, and through every molecule of matter found out of its norm, and tending by its weight toward its plane of rest, there flow the two kinds or qualities of energy—the ascending and descending. The ascending energy heaps up a resisting force in any body of matter through which it passes, and this pushes the molecule toward its own plane of rest. The descending energy adds its force to the momentum of the molecule in its gravic direction. As there are both gravic and levic gold energies, so there are gravic and levic energies belonging to every other substance in Nature.
Irrational Conclusions of the Spectroscopist.
Professor Comstock says: "This important principle of the spectrum analysis is most readily appreciated through the following experiment: listen to the whistle of a locomotive rapidly approaching, and observe how the pitch changes, and the note becomes more grave as the locomotive passes by and commences to recede. During the approach of the whistle, each successive sound-wave has a shorter distance to travel in coming to the ear of the listener than had its predecessor, and in consequence, the waves appear to come in quicker succession, producing a higher note with a correspondingly shorter wave-length than would be heard if the same whistle were blown with the locomotive at rest. On the other hand, the wave-length is increased and the pitch of the note lowered by the receding motion of the whistle. A similar effect is produced by a wave-length of light, by a change of distance between the source from which it comes and the instrument which receives it, so that a diminishing distance diminishes very slightly the wave-length of every line in the spectrum produced by the light, and an increasing distance increases these wave-lengths, and this holds true whether the change of distance is produced by motion of the source of light or by motion of the instrument which receives it. This change of wave-length is sometimes described by saying that when a body is rapidly approaching, the lines of its spectrum are all displaced toward the violet end of the spectrum, and are correspondingly displaced toward the red end by a receding motion."
The Doppler principle is applied to determine not only the direction of the motion of a heavenly body, whether it is approaching or receding, but to denote the rapidity of the motion. Examine carefully the illustration given in the whistle of the locomotive. Suppose there were a number of whistles pitched on different keys, located at the same distance, at the hour that Professor Comstock or any other Professor was expecting a regular train, for the occasion and to test the Professor's auditory acumen for scientific purposes. The train is supposed to be approaching, the whistles are sounded from one of the lowest pitch to one of the highest; will the Professor say that the whistles are approaching? He certainly will if he exemplifies the law as the scientific world is now applying it. Different intensities of combustion and different substances in combustion will affect the spectrum as different pitch of tone affects the whistles. The illustration proves too much for the Doppler principle. There are two things that will change the nature of the sound—distance and pitch. There are two things that will change the character of the spectrum—change of element and change of intensity. The spectroscopist has not yet learned to define the principle by which he may determine to which of these conditions the change of the stellar spectra is due. Until he has made this differentiation, he should be very careful not to insist too much upon the accuracy of his conclusions.
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The Flaming Sword · Vol. 15, No. 46 · 4 Oct 1901 · PDF pp. 4-6