New chapter in the story of nature / by Charles Bland Radcliffe.

  • Radcliffe, Charles Bland, 1822-1889.
Date:
1886
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: New chapter in the story of nature / by Charles Bland Radcliffe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And certainly there is no occasion to change this point of view in order to see why the solar and lunar and stellar currents should be utterly cold for millions upon millions of miles in empty space. Here these currents are more or less hot because the resistance is present which is necessary to fritter them down into heat: in empty space, for millions upon millions of miles, these currents are as cold as cold can be simply because this resistance is absent. This is all. Nor, as I have said, is heat necessary to account for the extreme tenuity of the material contents of the emptier parts of space, for this state of things may be nothing more than the natural consequence of the operation of unresisted electrical repulsion among the molecules.