TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION A, 83 



31. Where three bodies pass uear each other, one at least 

 has its velocity increased. In this way it is possible to account 

 for the enormous velocity of 1,840 Groombridge. "Whenever 

 the velocity is great enough to escape the attraction of the 

 universe the body is lost to it, and the other bodies are moving 

 slower. If this should only occur once in a thousand cases, 

 seeing that when it does occur the body escapes, if we only 

 give time enough most of the energy of any individual system 

 must be used up in allowing the escape of bodies. 



32. Thus, in opposition to the theory of dissipation of 

 energy, there is seen to be the possibility of an immortal 

 cosmos in which we have no evidence of a beginning or promise 

 of an end. 



