Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Mar 1878
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1878natur..17..360p&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 17, Issue 436, pp. 360 (1878).
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
I THINK I may be permitted to point out that Dr. Croll has missed what I had intended to be the main feature of my criticism of his article oil the ``Age of the Sun in Relation to Evolution''. I should therefore wish to reiterate that, in his theory, he takes no account of the proper motions of the stars in space. If it be true that suns or stars have been formed by the collision of bodies possessed of great energy, proper motion can be none other than the unused and unconverted energy of the original components. Supposing the forces, before impact, to be equal and opposite in direction, there can be no misunderstanding that the result will be the entire convertion of the ``motion of translation to molecular motion'', i.e., heat; but this, according to the law of chances, must be of exceedingly rare occurrence. Yet, from our knowledge of the motions of the stars in space, this, or something very like this, has in variably occurred. Surely here is a reduclio ad absurdum. In conclusion I will merely state that I have never yet claimed to have suggested a theory reconciling the age of the sun with prevailing opinions in geological science or with the hypothesis of evolution. Having felt the difficulty, I have endeavoured in some measure to stretch the interval wherein these may have had time to effect their changes, but I have not claimed to have succeeded to the desired extent. I am not, therefore, interested in replying to the former part of Dr. Croll's letter, and indeed, with certain minor reservations, have no hesitation in subscribing to it.
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