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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) July 1941

1941

This is the fundamental law but its simplicity does not run through the universe since each star moves in a complicated orbit under the gravitational attraction of all the other stars of the nebulae and the solar system so moves in an orbit under the attraction of all the other stars of the Galactic system. [...] The answfr is to be found in the fact that the conversion of stellar energy into heat and light is only possible by the annihilation of its matter and this is proved by the continuous loss of weight that their bodies undergo resulting in their gradual shrinkage contraction and dimunition of their size and the gradual lesser output of heat and light which is the slow mode of their combustion and [...] Our age is cast in a dying universe one that has entered the final stage of dissolution but the radiation of this vital energy into the cold space of the cosmos where the temperature must be some1941] SCIENCE'S SURVEY OF THE 'UNIVERSE 13 four degrees above the absolute zero about 484 degrees below the freezing point and even lower in the vast stretches of space that lie out of the range of stel [...] The result is in most of the States a chronic anarchy under which the revenues of the States are dissipated between the mercnaries of the camp and the minions of the Court. [...] The elongated human figure emering out of a broad basis has been placed in the right third of the sheet.' The unoccupied two-thirds of the space to the left may suggest to some eyes the conception of the infinite.
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Pages
114
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi unknown view
Science’s Survey of The Universe
1-19 Hari Gour view
Democracy in The Indian States
20-29 H.C Mookerjee view
Tagore the Poet as Painter
30-46 Binay Sarkar view
Mass Education in India
47-66 Amales Ghoush view
Metaphysical Poetry
67-75 D.P. Doomba view
Shaw’s Geneva
76-90 Bhabanisankar Choudhury view
News and Views
91-93 unknown view
Miscellany
94-98 Binay Sarkar view
Reviews and Notices of Books
99-103 S.C.S. view
Ourselves
104-108 unknown view

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