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The Open Court of Inquiry. THE EDITOR . |1 New Experiments at Tamarack Mines. “ En clo se dyouw ill find c lip p in g from th eM ilan (M o.) Standard, con ce rn in g re ce ntexpe rim en ts at th eCa lu met copp er m in es. Ifyou th in k there is any th in g in it, Iwou ld lik e for you to exp la in it in th eCou rt of In qu iry . It is cer ta in ly a ve ry str ange th in g , and it wou ld be in te re s tin g to have it exp la in ed .’ ’ The clipping above referred to con tains an account, taken from the S tt Paul Gazette, of recent experiments con ducted at the famous Tam arack Mines in M ichigan. Some apparently new facts are brought to light, strange to nearly everybody— facts likely to force changes in the accepted theories of gravitation.' It is found that nothing that falls into the deepest mining shafts in the world ever reaches the bottom. One day a m onkey-wrench was dropped into the shaft; it was found lodged against the east side of the shaft sev eral hundred feet down. The attention of the College of Mines was called to the fact; and the President of the college conducted a number of experiments, such as drop ping small but heavy spherical bod ies— not tossed in, but carefully sus pended from thread, and thread burned by candle flame. In every case the bodies dropped were found about 500 feet down the shaft, lodged against the east side. The cause of the phenomena still re mains a m ystery to the experimenters. The lateral gravity of the sides of the shaft, as calculated from the basis of accepted theory of mutual attraction of bodies, is not sufficient to cause a fall ing body to swerve eight or ten feet from the true vertical in traversing 500 feet. If it were pure lateral “ gravita tion,” the effect upon plumb-lines sus pended in the same shafts would be very marked; but in fact, such effect is not observed. W e must look for the solution of the problem in the fa llin g body itself, which is related to currents of enefigyin the space it traverses. The falling body gathers magnetism through its momentum; and both its motion and force of attraction acceler ate and augment to such an extent that the falling body is swerved from its vertical and drawn toward polar points of magnetism in the earth. The case would be analogous to that of a magnet suspended near an iron bar— if we could suppose its magnetism to in crease, it would be more and more drawn toward the bar until it should make final contact. In the falling body the magnetism is gathered or generated in itself, as it passes through space. In this also we find the cause of the acceleration in the velocity of falling bodies. A body near the sea level drops 16 f i feet the first second, twice that for the next second, and three times that for the third second, and so on. It is supposed that inasmuch as the attraction of gravitation carries the body 16 ^ feet the first second, it adds \b2/z feet to its path per second. Hence, this is called the “ law of falling bodies.” But the “ law ” does not e x plain the constantly accelerating speed or motion; the so called law is merely a statement of fact, a measure of velocity in given times. The explana tion is in the fact that the magnetic force of the falling body augments constantly in accordance with a fixed ratio, and its velocity increases propor tionately until, if the body falls far enough, as in the case of a meteor, the gathered force fuses it. Now if it were true that simple gravitation increases the velocity of falling bodies, sim p le gravitation should (from the basis of the supposi tion that the “ heavenly bodies” move through space by virtue of correspond ing attraction) correspondingly increase the velocity of the orbs in their paths for every successive given period of time. But no one is w illing to admit that such acceleration of speed occurs; but why it should not, if the planets move by attraction, has not yet been set forth by astronomers. The dif ficulty is that astronomers endeavor to apply to lights above us, principles and laws of motion operative in pond erable bodies near the earth’s surface. Much has been w ritten on the so called diurnal rotation of the earth. It is supposed to rotate toward the east. Astronomers assumed that projectiles fired perpendicularly should fall west 19 ofthegun , becauseof the motion! I theearth in theeas tw ard directi« I Butexper im en ts havenever borne the id eaata ll. Thenitwas heldthi b o d ie s f a ll in g d o w n m in in g shit j shou ld fa ll to wardthewest side. 1/ I usca ll attention to the fa ct that inti j TamarackMineexper im en ts , alii I bod ie sthatweredropped fell agait I the east s id e . Doub tle ss , magne tic po la r points 1 [ lo ca te deastoftheshaf ts , special mb eraldepos its , lo ads to ne , e tc . Butcoc monmagne tis mhase ffe cton ly on it ■ ors te e l; s till if magne tic force oi I g iv enqual it ybega th ered in a mart in its descen t, it will bea ttra c te d tow acorrespond in gm in eral charg ed : correspond in g vibra to ry m agnets j There is nore lia nce to be placed at: in thesoca lle dexper im en ts to pro! theearth ’ sdiurnalro ta tio n ormoti: throughspace . Pendu lu ms , project | f ir ed , bod ie sdropped in shaf ts —allli . to sustainthe id eaoftheea rth ’s mol ity . Ourreadersmaythinkat this juk tureofthefamousp ro b le m of a bo: droppedintoaho le ex te nd in g throsj I theearth . Wouldthebody slow: in its descentands to pat the center,' 9 vibratebackandfor th past the cente Manyfoo lis har ti cleshave beenwr tenonthesub je ct . The bo dy wo: c li ng to thes id eoftheho le . KORESH IN JACKSONVILLE. Lectures on th eS ig ns of the Times al W indsor A uditorium . Weshou ld l ik e to pub lis h all iI thefavorab ly d is posedda ily press of:: Floridame tr opo lis recen tly contain IL concern in gtheworkofK oresh,Ii s p a c e f o r b id s . The fo llo w in g sn j rnaryofh is lec tu re , c lip ped from: | Florid a T im es-U n io n , January 12,1 interestourfriendseve ry whe re : j Dr . Cyrus R. Teed , au thor of thei re shanUn iv e rso lo gy , lectured last err in g in th eW in dsor Auditorium , hiss I je c t being “ The Significance of t T i m e s . ” In h is lectu re D r . Teed: fined whathed eclares to be the order j humanp ro g re ss th rough cycles mail d efin itely , a c co rd in g -to astronomicalll Hemain ta insthat dispensations bef
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