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between two consecutive particles in the aether 

 should be greater than the minimum diameter of the 

 orbit of an electron. 



Model of the Positive Ion 



It is a question worth considering whether a 

 system vibrating in such a manner as not to lose 

 its energy by radiation will exert a repulsive or 

 an attractive force upon neighbouring objects, and 

 it seems probable that a negative corpuscle will be 

 attracted rather than repelled by an atom, the 

 vibrational energy in which is not dissipated, 

 but assumes the form of potential energy in the 

 atom. 



The force acting on a corpuscle, instead of acting 

 outwards as a repulsion, becomes converted into an 

 attraction. The energy of the vibrations, instead 

 of flowing outwards, flows inwards towards the 

 molecule, and the pressure acting on a neighbour- 

 ing electron will be reversed, the distribution of 

 force being turned inside out. The atom or mole- 

 cule will thus be attracted towards a negatively 

 electrified body, and behave as a positive ion. Is 

 a positive ion, then, nothing more than a negative 

 ion consisting of a large system of corpuscles in 

 a most violent state of agitation ? It is most 

 likely. 



An electron rotating in such a manner as not 

 to radiate will act just as a gyrostat. The con- 

 nection between the electron and the sether will 



