kinetic energy of motion, the ether itself being supposed to be 

 composed of material particles, oscillating with great rapid- 

 ity and producing an immense internal pressure within the 

 ether in all directions. 



The electron is supposed to he a vortex of ether in the 

 ether, the same as a tornado is a vortex motion of the air in 

 the air: bul this vortex that constitutes the electron may he 

 an actual stream of organized ether particles, or it may he an 

 organized wave motion closing in on itself. 



Whether this organized whorl has always existed and will 

 always continue to exist, or whether it is continually but slow- 

 ly disintegrating into the ether and others an- continually re- 

 forming is not known. 



There is an eternal exchange of energy taking- place be- 

 tween the ether and the electron. The electrons in the in- 

 numerable suns throughout space are radiating- their motion 

 out into the ether as electromagnetic waves, light waves or 

 heat waves. These waves differ from one another only in wave 

 length, and frequency. Since they are all due to the electron, 

 they are given the general name of electromagnetic waves. 

 Maxwell showed mathematically, and Lebedew proved experi- 

 mentally that light Avaves exert a pressure in the ether. They 

 showed that sunlight exerts a pressure amounting to 0.4 milli- 

 gram per square meter on a black surface and 0.8 of a milli- 

 gram on a perfect reflecting surface. 



Since it requires expenditure of energy to set up these 

 wave motions, the energy expended must reside in the wave as 

 motion of matter. Work has been done on the ether, and con- 

 sequently the ether has offered some kind of resistance or no 

 work could have been done upon it. This wave motion can- 

 not exist forever in the ether as such, because light exerts a 

 pressure, and the ether must be opposing some resistance to 

 the continuation of this motion. If it required expenditure 

 of energy to set up the* wave, then the wave front will have 

 to expend energy to continue its propogation. This means 

 that the energy of the wave will become dissipated throughout 

 space in time. It will finally degenerate into internal vibra- 

 tory motion of the particles of the ether. 



The electron in the suns of the universe are thus convert- 

 ing the internal vibratory energy of the ether into wave motion 

 in the ether, which in turn degenerates into internal vibratory 

 motion in the ether. As the suns contract, due to the action 

 of gravitation, each electron as it falls toward the center of 

 gravity of the sun acquires from the ether a certain amount 

 of energy due to its fall. On account of the grouping of the 

 electron into atoms, and on account of the close proximity 

 of other atoms this linear motion due to the fall of the electron 

 is converted into vibratory motion, which gives rise to light, 

 radiant heat and electromagnetic waves. 



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