146 THE UNIVERSE 



Sir Robert Ball said recently : "The most important 

 advance in astronomy was Prof. Keeler's discovery 

 of nebulae in such enormous numbers, and the fact 

 that most of them were in a spiral shape." This 

 spiral shape accords with the law of electro-mag- 

 netism and sustains the theory of electrical creation 

 of suns and planets. Matter could not be gathered 

 under any other law. 



In addition to the contradictions and complica- 

 tions of science already mentioned, scarcely a funda- 

 mental principle or concept remains. One of the 

 eternal indisputable postulates of science was that 

 "two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the 

 same time." But that is exploded, and we know 

 they do and we have proof of it every day. There 

 are numerous instances ; I will mention only one : 

 Twenty-eight electric currents can pass over the same 

 wire at the same time, fourteen one way and four- 

 teen the other, and occupy the same space and do 

 not interfere with one another. 



Scientists used to put great stress on solid matter, 

 and their primary division of matter was into solid, 

 liquid and gaseous. They have recently discovered 

 there is no such thing as solid matter. What they 

 termed solid matter is but the outer and visible 

 shell of invisible forces. That not a single atom of 

 matter touches another atom of matter; but there 

 is a space between them, and the atoms revolve 

 around each other in very much the same way as 

 the earth revolves around the sun, thus showing 

 that the laws of electro-magnetism are the same in 

 atoms as in worlds. 



The scientists only discovered the non-solidity of 

 matter since the use of the X-rays, and the Crookes 



