More Lights Than One
September 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 489 stance that has not only been reaped, but gleaned, and has been known for...
...For this reason, X-ray none too secure talent...
...At flight, but when they came home to roost...
...have been in the other end is violet, with six hundred and seventy...
...By no other can justice be done to turn by the X- and the Millikan rays, the incredible the intricate pattern which is the reverse side of an all- rapidity of whose operations may be imagined...
...Bud that there are other kinds of require actually 5o.oo centimetres, i.e., about twenty light besides "just ht" may be news to many...
...Some of the others are much more penetrating, indeed it is through their penetrative power that MORE LIGHTS THAN ONE the effects on tissue of the X-rays are caused...
...wise and all-compensatory dispensation...
...A steady insistence upon the objective of light or ray has been discovered by Professor Milliside of life, which has turned many of the more am- kan, of Chicago, recently the recipient of a Nobel bitious recent novels into a catalogue of sensory im- prize for his physical researches...
...Most people, if pressed, tricity and whose velocity is very high (about 12,000 would admit a knowledge that light can be, and is, in miles per second) can be stopped by a mere sheet of the rainbow, for example, split up into a number of paper, or a sheet of aluminum o.o5 millimetres thick...
...But the main point is that he must have understand their place in spectrology, the spectrum seen at least one life lived out, if it be only his own...
...But at least they show infinite resource that each of these is only one-ten-thousandth part of in evading the difficulties it imposes on nascent and the wave-length of visible light...
...What Professor in Stevenson's Garden of Verses, the thought that "the Millikan has discovered, to put the matter in its simworld is so full of a number of things" fills them with plest form, is a new set of rays of cosmic origin whose unreasoning joy...
...This discovery was pacts, a compendium of tastes and sounds and smells, briefly indicated in the paper given his scientific brethlends color and variety to their product and conceals ren at a recent meeting, and it has now been pubthe terrible poverty of the structure...
...at the harvest of the dragons' teeth as well as at their further than this perception does not reach...
...of mica...
...Like the child lished in the Scientific American...
...But beplanting...
...perhaps too much to say that they deny psychology Difficult as it is to grasp the fact, physicists tell us altogether...
...This will at least save kan's rays and even longer than the X-rays...
...Determinism and fatalism spectroscopy reveals crystalline structure...
...A a sheet of aluminum 5.oo millimetres thick to stop remnant will know t iat these shades can be synthe- them...
...To cal hobo...
...save them from the terrible necessity of ever indicat- After four years of patient search, another species ing a choice...
...The novelist whom we are trying to envisage must Close upon the heels of Professor Millikan's disnot be ashamed of being old, not altogether forgetful covery comes news from North Wales of another ray of having been young...
...ordinary light...
...But it is not a joy that they man- wave-length is ooo4 of the Angstrom unit, or, as it age to communicate save to minds as immature as is usually formularized, .0004 A. Briefly, the new rays their own, or to minds, secretly dismayed at their own are a thousand times shorter in wave-length than the maturity, which massage and "lift" their critical per- X-rays, and ten million times shorter than those of ceptions into a fictitious semblance of youth...
...It is hardly necessary to add that, using the yond the violet come the ultra-violet rays, still beyond word in its very widest sense, he should be a man of these last the Williams ray just named, followed in religious thought...
...At one end of this is red with four have been there, not only when the chickens took hundred and sixty billion vibrations per second...
...must be studied...
...The TO the unscientific and unenquiring mind, light is relative penetrative power of radio-active substances just light, and there, in the words of bluff Dr...
...One likes to imagine him, like or species of light identified by Professor Wynn our own Henry Adams, a man whose mind at least, Williams, who has worked them out at the University is of aristocratic texture, neither dazzled by luxury laboratories...
...They are arrested by gold leaf and by a slice any but the ultimate good...
...The Alpha rays, Johnson, who loved to air the positivist view on occa- which are helium atoms charged with positive elecsions "there's an end on't...
...and rebellious interiors, are a species of light with an As for the younger novelists, upon whom more and infinitely shorter wave-length, that is, with infinitely more the brunt of production is falling, it would be shorter intervals between the peaks of the vibrations...
...For, if evil be The new rays from Wales have little penetrating not stronger than good, it is at least stronger than power...
...the Gamma rays, which have been considered sized into white by he simple instrument known as to be a species of X-rays set up by the Beta electron, Newton's disk...
...makes an interesting comparison...
...September 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 489 stance that has not only been reaped, but gleaned, and has been known for a considerable time that the famous their novels, that succeed one another with the sad and now familiar X-rays, which are often encountered regularity of the seasons, grow more rigid and more by patients with fractured bones, teeth under suspicion lifeless with each repetition...
...what are called the seven primary colors, though actu- The Beta rays, which are free-flying electrons, require ally into an almost :nfinite gradation of shades...
...These new rays are longer than Millinor blinded by complexities...
...It inches of aluminum to arrest their powerful flight...
...Everyus having the world presented to us through the crav- body by now has heard or read of the ultra-violet ings of a bell-hop or the pruritus of the autobiographi- rays, employed at times as a medical treatment...
Vol. 4 • September 1926 • No. 21
