292 Mr Pocklington, On the Kinetic Theory of Matter. 



The result of § 10 shows that we may assume that the various 

 kinds of atom are different final states of the same systems, in 

 which case the possibility of transmutation of the elements is not 

 wholly excluded. We may however explain them as conditioned 

 by the various geometrically possible strain-systems in the ether 

 (cf. the theory that the various kinds of atom are variously knotted 

 vortex rings). 



The simpler phenomena, such as Boyle's and Charles' laws, 

 which depend on the collision of molecules, are given by the 

 ordinary theory, for which Assumption B holds good. Again, 

 the equations of motion of the ether are known, and contain no 

 non-integrable equations of condition. There are only two places 

 where such equations are to be expected, namely in the relations 

 between the atom and its charge, and in the relations between 

 the charge and the disturbance it produces in the ether. We do 

 not know the phenomena connected with the motion of isolated 

 charges or charged atoms well enough to say where the equations 

 occur or to guess what they are. 



