134 TWO NEW WORLDS 



A body capable of life on the vast scale of a 

 higher universe of this order must itself be com- 

 mensurable with the supra- world. It must be a 

 supra-organism. 



Our galactic system is, in all probability, a 

 supra-organism. Let us picture to ourselves the 

 conditions under which its life is carried on, in a 

 world of a physical constitution such as our investi- 

 gations have led us to assign to the supra-world. 



Whatever is changed in passing from our world 

 to the supra-world, the corresponding velocities 

 remain the same. Atoms and stars, electrons and 

 planets, cells and galaxies move with the same 

 average absolute velocity in the same ether. This 

 fact is mysterious, and, no doubt, significant. It 

 provides us with a far-reaching uniformity of the 

 first importance, a "pole at rest in the whirl of 

 phenomena." 



Distances being exaggerated 1 22 times, it follows 

 that times must be exaggerated in the same ratio, 

 or the velocities would not be constant. But the 

 measurement of space and time is purely relative. 

 Time is measured by events, and any event which 

 in our world requires one second, will, in the supra- 

 world, require 10 22 seconds for its accomplishment. 

 But this vast period over a hundred billion years- 

 will, in the supra-world, only appear to be one 

 second. It will contain the same number of corre- 

 sponding events as does our second. Similarly, 



