Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1892 — Is Our Sun a Dynamo? [ARTICLE]

Is Our Sun a Dynamo?

Popular Electric Motor. As we look at the glowing carbon in an incandescent lamp, and know that it is possible for that hair-like filament to maintain its heat and brilliancy almost unchanged for more than one thousand hours, it is an object lesson for us. It is intense heat and brilliant light without combustion. When feeble man has beea able to so far unravel the mysteries ot heat and light as to accomplish this result, a suspension of judgment at least is called for on the part of our scientific leaders who hold to the theory that the heat of the sun must be derived from combustion, and predict that the time may come when the fuel will be exhausted. The light coming from the incandescent lamp is simply another form of motion. Is it not possible that He who sits on high os the ruler of all forces may utilize the motion of the rolling spheres as huge dynamos, and thus give us sunlight and heat, without combustion? The cocoon of a wclifed silkworm, it is said, will often yield a thread 1,000 yards long, and one has been produced which contained 1,295 yards. Insects are destroying whole forests in Virginia, and among other trees the famous pope’s pine. _