THE MOVING WATERS 



atom, the sun, and the waters of the world, in the service 

 of man. As years pass the alHance will be strengthened by 

 the invention of new devices which will interlink their 

 respective fields of power. 



In this alliance the atom is the senior partner; for its 

 inconceivably vast power — creatively and destructively 

 — is the basis of the sun's energy and the fundamental 

 driving force behind all the movements of the waters. 



Future generations will probably reap the full benefits 

 of the atom-sun-sea association, as it brings more and 

 more power into man's service — provided always that 

 the senior partner can be subjected to international 

 control.* 



The atomic energy stored in the world's oceans is, of 

 course, vast beyond all human comprehension. There are 

 untold billions of billions of ultra-microscopic whirlpools 

 of energy in a pailful of sea-water : each atom being a 

 miniature solar-system with ''planets" revolving around 

 a central "sun"; although the analogy fails when we 

 consider the terrific speeds of the electron "planets" as 

 compared with the relatively slow motions of our sun's 

 planets in their orbits. 



Enveloping a spinning earth, the world's oceans have 

 whirlpools in myriads within whirlpools : ranging from 

 atomic ones, through vast numbers of those vortices 

 which are so readily created by the world's winds and all 

 other surface disturbances, right up to the mighty whirl- 

 pools which spin steadily and permanently in particular 

 areas of the sea's surface. With the lore and magic of 

 these larger whirlpools, and some of the fascinating 

 creatures which inhabit them, we are now immediately 

 concerned. 



*"The Harwell men are so certain of their findings that work on H-power is 

 already being farmed out to industry. They are certain they have achieved the 

 fantastic temperature of 12,000,000 degrees centigrade with a small-scale con- 

 trolled H-bomb reaction in an apparatus called Zeta Two. . . . These experiments 

 are likely to lead to the generation of electric power from a form of hydrogen 

 which can be extracted in unlimited quantities from sea water." — Daily Express, 

 1 6th December 1957. 



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