Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1894 — What Is the Sun? [ARTICLE]

What Is the Sun?

Chicago Tribune. Nicola Tesla is reported as saying that “the light of the sun is the result of electric vibrations in the ether that separates us from that luminary and does not proceed from a great central fire,as the scientists have all along held.” To this it may be remarked that the said vibrations “TTTCBTlravb some cause,and that coni' mensurate with the effect, so that if the sun were only half as powerful as now he would not excite more than half the total of energy that now is expressed in vibrations between him and must be quoted incorrectly as saying the earth. Fnrthenrtkre, Tesla the scientists have all along held the sum to be a great central fire. About the time Tesla was born it was pointed out that the material composing the sum is too hot to burn.and this statement is not gainsaid by any astronomer who studies the chemistry of the sun. One of the experiments made by those whose business it is to test the strength of dynamite, gun cotton and other explosives is to place fresh plucked leaves between two plates of panel steel and explode cartridges on the upper plate. The recoil in such cases is so great and sudden that the upper plate is driven downward with such force and rapidity as to catch the exact impression of the leaves before their delicate ribs have time to give way before the force of the blow.. This novel method of engraving is one of the wonders of the cetrfCrj