Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 1878
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Nature, Volume 17, Issue 441, pp. 464-465 (1878).
Physics
Scientific paper
IT has been urged by Mr. Plummer (pp. 303 and 360) as a fundamental objection to the theory that sun-stars are formed from the collision of stellar masses, that if the theory be true there ought to be many of the stars moving with great velocities, which he affirms is not the case. But I am unable to understand upon what grounds he bases his assertion. I freely admit that if it could be proved that none of the stars has, as he seems to suppose, a proper motion of more than thirty or forty miles per second, it would at least be a formidable difficulty in the way of accepting the theory. For it would indeed be strange, as Mr. Plummer remarks, ``that amid all the diversity of dimensions of the heavenly bodies, it should invariably happen that the resultant movement of the combined masses should be reduced to such insignificant figures as the above''. But how does Mr. Plummer arrive at the conclusion that something like this must invariably have taken place? I fear that before his objection can be fairly urged something more definite must yet be known as to the rate of motion of the stars.
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