“We have, heretofore, called your attention to the scientific hypothesis that the atom is composed of electrons, “rotating with inconceivable velocity”, whose distance is relatively as far apart as the planets of our solar system; each atom representing, as it were, a minute solar system. Again, every molecule is made up of atoms which, in [...]
Tag: solar system
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter ix (the manifestation of yahveh)
“When Flammarion wrote this, it was considered very fanciful, but physicists by experimenting with radioactive substances, have discovered many things concerning the atom, which less than thirty years ago they were unable to prove by a single scientific experiment. The atom has always been considered indestructible and indivisible, using Flammarion's language, “too small for thought”, [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter vii (the immensity of the universe)
“In the whole celestial sphere, the number of stars bright enough to be seen with the naked eye is only from 6,000 to 7,000, whereas, the number visible in the great Lick telescope is probably 100,000,000, and Professor Young makes the remark that it shows stars so faint that it would take more than 30,000 [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter vii (the immensity of the universe)
“In our flight across the vast void, the solar system is left behind as an island in space, and we find that we have traveled 250,000 times the radius of the earth's orbit before we have reached the nearest fixed star, and from it no telescope yet invented could reveal a single one of the [...]
the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter vii (the immensity of the universe)
“” When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him?" Some little conception, inadequate as it must be, of the wonders of the Universal Spirit, the One [...]