CONSTITUENTS of THE UNIVERSE, 



A Suggestion Regarding the 

 Heat from the Sun. 



fHE sun being the centre of the solar sys- 

 tem, has less mass motion than the orbs 

 that move with and around it. Take the 

 earth, for example, and the difference is nearly 

 nineteen miles a second. If the earth was sud- 

 denly arrested when moving at such speed, that 

 motion would be changed into heat and light ; 

 as we see when the electric movement is sud- 

 denly arrested. We have seen, too, that a por- 

 tion of a movement can be manifested in heat 

 and light, and the balance in other motions at 

 the same time. If, then, the whole sum of the 

 sun's motion is substantially the same in pro- 

 portion to its size as that of the earth, which 

 seems reasonable, and its mass motion nine- 

 teen miles a second less than that of the earth, 

 there would then be the equivalent of that 

 amount of arrested motion continuously, which 

 the sun could not manifest except by the radial 

 movement of heat and light. This reason for 

 the continuous radial movement from the sun 

 is not only plausible, but it seems adequate. 



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