SIR JAMES JEANS:
SIR JAMES HOPWOOD JEANS (1877-1946) WAS BOTH AN EMINENT SCIENTISTS AND A WRITER WITH A REMARKABLE GIFT FOR BRINGING HIS SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE WITHIN THE REACH OF THE COMMON READER THOMAS ONCE DESCRIBED HIM AS A RICH IMAGINATION WORKING TROUGH A FLEXIBLE PEN THANKS TO HIS GIFT FOR COMMUNICATING SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS TO THE NON SCIENTIST A LARGE PUBLIC HAS GAINED AN INTELLIGENT INSIGHT INTO THE FINDINGS OF MORDERN ASTRONOMY AND mathematical PHYSICS .HIS DISTINGUISHED ACHEVEMENTS IN SCIENCE BROUGHT HIM MANY BONOURS KNIGHT HOOOD ,FELLOWSHIP OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF WHICH HE WAS SECRATERY FROM SOME YEARS, AND MEMBER SHIP OF THE HIGHLY EXCLUSIVE ORDER OF MERIT .THE PUBLIC KNOWS HIM BY SUCH BOOKS AS THE UNIVERSE AROUND US (1920) THE MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE (1930) AND PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY (1942) THE PASSAGE WHICH FOLLOWS THE OPENING OF THE MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE IS A SPLEND DID DEMONSTRATION OF HIS POWER TO COMMUNICATE A SCIENTIST VISION OF THE UNIVERSE WITH LUCIDITY AND VIVIDNESS.
A FEW STARS ARE KNOWN WHICH ARE HARDLY BIGGER THAN THE EARTH BUT THE MAJORITY ARE SO LARGE THAT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF EARTH COULD BE PACKED INSIDE EACH AND LEAVE ROOM TO SPARE HERE AND THERE WE COME UPON A GIANT STAR LARGE ENOUGH TO CONTAINS MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF EARTH.AND THE TOTAL NUMBER OF STAR IN THE UNIVERSE OF PROBALY SOMETING LIKE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF GRAINS OF SAND ON ALL THE SEASHORES OF THE WORLD.SUCH IS THE LITTLENESS OF OUR HOME IS SPACEWHEN MEASURED UP AGAINST THE TOTAL SUBSTANCE OF THE UNIVERSE.
THIS VAST MULTITUDE OF STARS ARE WANDERING ABOUT IN SPACE. A FEW FROM GROUPS WITH JOURNEY IN COMPANY BUT THE MAJORITY ARE SOLITARY TRAVELLERS. AND THEY TRAVEL THROUGH A UNIVERSE SO SPACIOUS THAT IT IS AN EVENT OF ALMOST UNIMAGINABLE RARITY FOR A STAR TO COME ANYWHERE NEAR TO ANOTHER STAR. FOR THE MOST PART EACH VOYAGES IN SPLENDID ISOLATION LIKE A SHIP ON AN EMPTY OCEAN. IN A SCALE MODEL IN WHICH THE STARS ARE SHIP AVERAGE SHIP WILL BE WELL OVER A MILLION MILES FROM ITS NEAREST NEGHIBOUR WHENCE IT IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND WHY A SHIP SELDOM FINDS ANOTHER WITHIN HAILING DISTANCE!!!!!!!! !
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