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The Fairy-Land of Science
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Arabella B. Buckley
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Now
if
you
can
imagine
this
ether
filling
every
corner
of
space,
so
that
it
is
everywhere
and
passes
through
everything,
ask
yourselves,
what
must
happen
when
a
great
commotion
is
going
on
in
one
of
the
large
bodies
which
float
in
it?
When
the
atoms
of
the
gases
round
the
sun
are
clashing
violently
together
to
make
all
its
light
and
heat,
do
you
not
think
they
must
shake
this
ether
all
around
them?
And
then,
since
the
ether
stretches
on
all
sides
from
the
sun
to
our
earth
and
all
other
planets,
must
not
this
quivering
travel
to
us,
just
as
the
quivering
of
the
boards
would
from
me
to
you?
Take
a
basin
of
water
to
represent
the
ether,
and
take
a
piece
of
potassium
like
that
which
we
used
in
our
last
lecture,
and
hold
it
with
a
pair
of
nippers
in
the
middle
of
the
water.
You
will
see
that
as
the
potassium
hisses
and
the
flame
burns
round
it,
they
will
make
waves
which
will
travel
all
over
the
water
to
the
edge
of
the
basin,,
and
you
can
imagine
how
in
the
same
way
waves
travel
over
the
ether
from
the
sun
to
us.
Straight
away
from
the
sun
on
all
sides,
never
stopping,
never
resting,
but
chasing
after
each
other
with
marvellous
quickness,
these
tiny
waves
travel
out
into
space
by
night
and
by
day.
When
our
spot
of
the
earth
where
England
lies
is
turned
away
from
them
and
they
cannot
touch
us,
then
it
is
night
for
us,
but
directly
England
is
turned
so
as
to
face
the
sun,
then
they
strike
on
the
land,
and
the
water,
and
warm
it;
or
upon
our
eyes,
making
the
nerves
quiver
so
that
we
see
light.
Look
up
at
the
sun
and
picture
to
yourself
that
instead
of
one
great
blow
from
a
fist
causing
you
to
see
starts
for
a
moment,
millions
of
tiny
blows
from
these
sun-waves
are
striking
every
instant
on
you
eye;
then
you
will
easily
understand
that
his
would
cause
you
to
see
a
constant
blaze
of
light.
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