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THE ITHACA JOURNAL. THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1945 ELEVEN atomic bomb also might have had to wait. This might have meant Electric Hot Flab Water a prolongation oi me war. Atomic Bomb Based on Theory of Man Nazis Drove Out of Germany Thousands of young Americans Twt Switch 8' first of the year." he said. That is pretty definite." The Queen Mary is the last big British transport still carrying American troops since the withdrawal by the British government of the Queen Elizabeth and the Aquitania.

Biritn thus may owe their lives to the theory of relativity. is another way -of saying that pure MEANER' science, no matter how impractical it may appear, pays high dividends in the end. mm This the third of a number of articles by a staff member of The -ew York Times who was detached for service with the War Department at Its request to explain the atomic bomb to the lay Public He witnessed the first test of the bomb In New Mexico and. on a flight to Nagasaki, the actual use. By WILLIAM L.

LAURENCE BLACK CRACK-0- LACQUER FINISH no soap for Your Undies? Lowest Prica Prica $.15 ergy present in the material. But In Town even 1100 of 1 per cent still would 02 REPLACE WORN OUT be the most destructive force by far on this earth. on HOS BEFORE PUTTING Queen to Continue To Move Troops New York UP) The British liner Queen Mary will continue to bring American service men back from Europe, at until the beginnig of next year, says Maj. Gen. Clarence H.

Kells, commandant of the New York Port of Embarkation. "There is no indication that 'the Queen Mary will be taken out of our troopship service before the FT. Atomic enerey. released through ANTI-FREEZEIN YOUR CAR. Floor Mat Material For Car or Home Robber-Like the splitting of atoms, differs radically from, ordinary types of energy hitherto available to man in that it involves annihilation of matter.

When an atom is split, part of its Used fats are needed in making soap as well as nylons, electric irons and other items you want. TURN IN YOUR USED FATS I GENUINE maner is converted into energy. This is materially different from obtaining power by the use of a water wheel, for example, or by the burning of coal or oil. In the. case of the water wheel, the water molecules takinsr part remain entirlv SW mm, v-mS unchanged.

They simply lose poten -itzJ, 36 In. Wide RA. Price, per yard JC 1 tial energy as they pass from the dam to the tailrace. Atom's Identity Changes atomic mass units, which is converted into pure energy. The amount of energy liberated in this process by the enormous quantities of hydrogen in the sun represents an actual loss of sun's mass at the rate of 4,000,000 tons per second, mere speck or dust in relation to the sun's total mass of two billion billion billion tons.

If the sun, however, were a mass of coal" weighing the same amount, it would have to burn three billion times the mass it is burning "now to produce the same amount of energy. If that were the case it would have used up the entire store of molecular energy contained in its body of coal in the course of 5,750 years. In other words, it would have burned out long before the earth was born. Long- Life for Earth By the use of atomic energy, the sun has been tble to give off its enormous amounts of radiation for a period estimated at 10 billion years, and its mass, at (he present rate of burning, is enough to last 15,000 billion years mor. although, of course, the amount of its radiation would be greatly reduced long before that in proportion to the decrease of its mass.

Radiations in amounts sufficient to support life on earth are estimate I to continue for some 10 to 100 billion years longer." Since the very existence' of atomic energy was first discovered through the theory of relativity, the development of the atomic bomb constitutes the most dramatic proof so far offered for tie correctness of the theory, and also marks the first time it has been put to practical use in mundane affairs. It is one of the great ironies of history that the German war lords, who drove Einstein into exile, were forced to rely on the theory of relativity in their efforts to develop an atomic bomb to save them from defeat. America, of which Einstein now is an honored citizen, suc In the case of burning coal or Fit will GRADE NO. 1 TIRES SiitCCaxlG Baby Strollers oil a more intense process takes place, as the atoms of carbon, hy Atomic energy, harnessed for the nrst time by our scientists for use in atomic bombs, la the practically inexhaustible source of power that enables our sun to supply us with heat light and other forms of radiant energy without which life on earth would not be possible. It also is the same energy, stored jn the nuclei of the atoms of the material universe, that keeps the stars bodies much larger than our sun, radiating their enormous quantities of light heat for billions of years, instead of burning themselves out in periods measured only in thousands of years, piscovered by Einstein The existence of atomic energy first was discovered by Einstein about 40 years ago on purely theoretical grounds, as an outgrowth of his famous relativity theory, according to which a body in motion has a greater mass than the same body at rest, this increase in motion bearing a direct relationship to the velocity of light.

This meant that the energy of motion imparted an actual increase in mass. From the formula for the relationship of this increase of mass the velocity of light Einstein derived his famous mathematical equation that revealed for the first time an equivalence between mass and energy, one of the most revolutionary concepts in the intellectual history of mankind. The mass-energy equation showed that any given quantity of mass was the equivalent of a specific amount of energy, and vice versa. Energy Highly Concentrated Specifically this equation revealed the (at that time) incredible fact that very small amounts of matter contained tremendous amounts of energy. A piece of coal the size of a pea, the equation proved, con- Alt Metol Construction drogen and oxygen (of which the (rims Tu coal and oil molecules are com ATTENTION posed) are regrouped by combustion into new molecules formine new substances.

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