This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...radiation, and a radio-active radiation which may be properly ascribed to this particular region; and on this basis we proceed to discuss the constitution of the outer corona. The above results seem to be much more probable than those of Von Oppolzek or of Fenti, and if they are correct, we see the way for further ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...radiation, and a radio-active radiation which may be properly ascribed to this particular region; and on this basis we proceed to discuss the constitution of the outer corona. The above results seem to be much more probable than those of Von Oppolzek or of Fenti, and if they are correct, we see the way for further computations depending on these values. The upper strata of the solar atmosphere, occupying generally the region of the inner corona, are under conditions favorable for producing the phenomenon of gaseous ionization. They are rarefied to a suitable degree, are under temperatures fit for violent molecular and atomic agitations, and if, as has been assumed, powerful electric discharges take place in the solar material, then the atomic masses themselves are disintegrated, negative ions are detached, and as carriers of electricity they are propelled out into space by electric repulsion to form the outer solar corona. This view locates the electric currents in the heated gases of the inner corona, which are good conductors of electricity under low pressures, and admits the doctrine of gaseous ionization with the production of cathodic or negative carriers of electricity, or corpuscles of matter. At the same time we also hold that the solar nucleus is viscous or quasi-solid, that it is the seat of magnetization, and that the lines of force emitted by a spherical magnet can be traced in the structure of the outer solar corona. If these two systems of force exist simultaneously, a magnetic field in the nucleus, and an electrostatic field with electric discharges and ionization in the outer portions of the spherical envelope, then their interaction must produce a configuration corresponding to this physical formation. For it is well known that the negative...
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