HEAT AND COLD. 



to lend additional life to the body by impact against 

 same, then the planet will continue to sink toward the 

 sun until the sun w r ill generate heat enough to separate 

 faster on the exposed side toward the heat than the 

 range of cold will admit of compression on the outer 

 side. Consequently that method will discontinue the 

 revolution. The detached particles being detached 

 faster than the degree of cold will admit of precipita- 

 tion on the outer side. Consequently, no revolution. 

 No revolution means liberation of the gaseous center 

 and a hasty trip into heat sufficient to burn the body 

 into the gaseous form again. 



So we have one means of delaying the burning 

 either by impact of the moon or by impact of Mars; or 

 last, but not least, the hasty trip into the regions near 

 the sun where we will be reduced to gases. This 

 method remains in liberating stored heat on the planet 

 and thereby causing the earth to continue warm, and 

 fast enough on its axis to protect itself from foreign 

 bodies. The speed it has at present on its axis is a safe 

 guard from foreign invasion. The heat it has in the 

 gaseous medium which is liberated heat also tends to 

 reflect the heat of the sun and suspend other bodies 

 like the moon which desire to fall on the earth. The 

 heat in the liberated form in the body of gases around 

 the earth also tends to suspend the earth at a great dis- 

 tance from the sun. By liberating the bodies of gases 

 or properties of matter which are solidifying and caus- 

 ing the work of compression to be gone over again and 

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