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momentum and energy would also be zero. In a 

 mathematical equation this necessarily would be true, 

 but the fallacy involved is the ascription of the 

 terras of gravity to a non-gravitic body. 



Because all ponderable masses, gases included, are 

 subject to and are measured by the so-called attrac- 

 tion of gravitation, it does not follow that a form of 

 matter cannot exist that is not so attracted or acted 

 upon, though otherwise like matter in general. If 

 it is assumed that the translatory motion of the e.ther 

 molecules are the cause of gravitation, it is self-evident 

 that the molecules themselves that cause gravitation 

 cannot be affected by gravity, for the same reason 

 that the isotropic vibrations of the molar Ether, con- 

 stituting radiant heat, light and electricity, do not 

 and cannot heat or otherwise affect the intermediary 

 ether through which they pass, not even warming the 

 transparent air (if pure) with the molecules of which 

 the Ether is mingled. In other respects the proper- 

 ties of the molecules would resemble those of other 

 matter, though of great tenuity. They would have a 

 definite size, volume, impenetrability, atomic struc- 

 ture and polarity ; they would be subject to the same 

 laws in relation to momentum and energy that govern 

 other matter, though these relations cannot be ex- 

 pressed in the terms applicable only to ponderable 

 matter. Apparently the Ether atoms, like the gases 



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