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The universe in expanding like = gigan tic fourdimensional toy balloon blows up by the breath of cowmicc aptotal or en gendering telocities as high as 11000 cules rated, Fue let of decrete ce ‘cal dysice in ax dincuncertidges a Toted earth suspended in space must have been to those nents who were raised on the idea of fat earth. Ap earthbound mortals to whom miles mesure long distances, it is even difficult to project our one to the lima as wrilltos of aiden Task to be aaeranee or ballast' aen Teil to be acerane when the universe is surveyed. The die ee that light travels in = year (it travels 00 rs 2econd) i used as the yardstick of the common. is agit Tthaioee song. Snes ae ee ia might light miquees sway. TE is Fiagnifeaot tay ig. 4 galaxy of ware List trmerkable chiefly because we are in it. ‘Nearest star neighbour of the sum i seve our lghtreere away. Our grey ere e May: Wass SOetade’ oor the ac tion of stare wed within the limes OS ieteye ereaieal Lelewupe oo Mt Wir on tamer) there are some once other stellar erstems. each comew out nwt, ‘Thee are the webalac, oe of the striking and nearest of which is the great epiral i Andromeda, some Enity care awas. 7 mie to fir adherenceo the notions of Fuclid and Newton, we quite naturalio think of space beyond the teach of tele penes gem.a and ne to i Eilled with calazier apon galaxies ae is the sample if space yhat we eat eee. The consequences of the Ermetein general theory of relmtreity wige this picture. A kind of space now favoures by he scientiaty to one in which stare is the three dimensional anelogue at a sphere sod w Gaile sod webounded, Th re Ssffealt a, Sanaline, of bare sin, be thoweht wi ae the wucleer of a in Nibbles hich. an Te pulls cats retinted mustuide of zalatics ry the same reatiee positions, even though they get farther tart. Faperitental evidence delivered to ae teounniers ty Ligh from the nebulae theme of oars oe the universe tually expande 1 Tight from’ distant objets discovered by Basel P. Hubble and Milton L. Bunyania at Mt Wil Chaetratory enim that the ales by ontching the light are making a relativistic spare at tremendous speeder At least that in the favourite explanation Thie gives the amazing conclation that the woiterse is doubling I's sue every fourteen thdred welibaa ara hich of time That the cispaed, on geslogiate conclade from radioactive rocks, epee sold crust of the earth pas formed. Bip Arthur Eddington pointe out that ecerethuing being relative the theory’ thet ‘re and the atoms that compose of arg. Thinking is yet as lopigal as the expente Ing univerer The shrieking atomides may become terrifying
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Perth West Australian
Perth, Western Australia, AU
Mon, Jan 02, 1933
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