The ether is thus the source from which the sun draws 

 its energy, and the ether is the great reservoir into which the 

 sun again pours this energy but in another form ; and the 

 electron is the transformer. The region around a sun thus 

 becomes a region of high pressure and the interstellar spaces 

 are regions of low pressure. As the wave motion disintegrates 

 into internal vibratory motion of the ether, the internal pres- 

 sure of the ether is raised at that point. An equalization of 

 pressure will then take place between two regions of high 

 pressure. 



In Fig. 7, let A and B be two regions of high pressure. 

 Suppose two lines of pressure approach one another laterally 

 as at L. As they come within one another's influence a whorl 

 will be formed, and a little tornado will be established, or a 

 right-handed vortex will originate. A vortex tends to draw 

 material into itself at one pole and discharge it at the other, 

 thus setting up a circulation perpendicular to the plane of 

 the whorl L, For our present purpose suppose this whorl spins 

 out a spiral at right angles to its plane of rotation, proceeding 

 doAvnward into the plane of the paper, the spiral closing in 



Figure 7. 



on itself, so that the spiral forms an endless spiral ring, hav- 

 ing the diameter of the whorl for the diameter of the spiral, 

 the diameter of the ring being much barger. This spiral then 

 becomes an organized entity, being composed of a stream line 

 of motion in the ether. This process would relieve the internal 

 pressure in the ether by shearing out of it a portion of itself 

 into a linear motion of particles of the ether in the. form of a 

 closed spiral. 



This process of pressure equalization at L would result in 

 the formation of a great many of these rings close 

 together, due to a great many filamental lines along 

 which the pressure would be transmitted. The total number 

 produced at any one spot would join together to form an elec- 

 tron, the electron then consisting of a group of these spirals 

 as shown in Fig. 8, which represents a cross section of an elec- 

 tron. Two spiral rings only are shown. The motion of the 

 rings is entering at S and leaving at N. The arrows d crossing 

 the rings show the direction of the rotation of the spiral and 

 the arrows C show the direction of the motion in the ring. 



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