The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe

by Isaac W. Heysinger

CLASSIFIED INDEX OF SUBJECT-MATTER.

ASTRONOMY.
Largely an empirical science, hitherto, [9].
New light on the phenomena of, [68], [250], [341].
Review of subject-matter of the present work, [341]–348.
Speculative, excluded, [341].
Interpretation of the mysteries of, [348].

ATMOSPHERE.
Atmosphere of sun composed principally of free hydrogen, [39], [61].
Free oxygen the characteristic element in earth’s atmosphere, [39].
Mott’s theory to account for absence of hydrogen in earth’s atmosphere untenable, [39]–44.
No theory, hitherto, has accounted for the solar hydrogen, [44].
Aqueous vapors in planetary atmospheres, whence derived, [46], [62].
Aqueous vapors diffused through interplanetary space, [46], [65].
Aqueous vapors diffused through interstellar space, [65].
Composition of the terrestrial atmosphere, [47].
Composition of the solar atmosphere, [48].
Composition of the planetary atmospheres, [62].
Aqueous vapors around the sun, [62].
Two grand categories of heavenly bodies, one with atmospheres characterized by free hydrogen and the other with atmospheres characterized by free oxygen, [62].
Atmospheres, either electrically positive or negative, of hydrogen or oxygen, universal for all the bodies of space, [65].
Solar and cometic bodies have atmospheres of the hydrogen class, highly heated; planetary atmospheres are of the oxygen class, and are cool, [66].
Solar and planetary atmospheres are mutually correlated, and produced by disassociation of the elements of aqueous vapors, [67].
“No sun no planets: no planets no sun,” [69].
Rapid increase of electrical potential as we ascend through the earth’s atmosphere, [74].
Its significance, [74], [75].
Sun-spots, terrestrial electricity and magnetism, and auroras, connected with one another, [77].
A material medium, besides the luminiferous ether, exists between earth and sun, [81].
The medium consists of attenuated aqueous vapors commingled with other vaporized elements, [81].
The processes of formation of solar and planetary atmospheres from these vapors, [82], [308].
Incandescence of solar and cool state of planetary atmospheres explained, [83]–85.
Contraction and expansion of sun’s semi-vaporous condensed nucleus a self-compensating mechanism for the regulation of his light and heat, [88], [106].
Identity of atmospheric aurora and electrical brush-light discharge, [90], [91].
Rotating electrosphere of the earth, [96].
Dimensions of, [96].
Resistance of atmosphere considered, [97], [100].
Principles concerned in the generation and maintenance of atmospheres, [100]–106.
Currents in space; their influence on planetary and solar electrospheres, [106]–107.
No visible atmosphere on the moon, [122].
Atmosphere and aqueous vapors must exist on the moon’s surface, but can exist only on opposite side, [123].
Lunar atmosphere and axial rotation considered with reference to “Argument of Design,” [122]–128.
Habitability of the other planets, [128]–136.
Atmosphere of Mars analyzed and computed, [130]–132.
Atmospheres of Jupiter, Neptune, the moon, etc., [132].
Method of computing the atmosphere of any known planet, [131]–134.
Estimation of oxygen in different planetary atmospheres, [133].
A slight libration of the moon’s atmosphere around its margin produced by counteractive angular effect of solar attraction and repulsion of the earth’s electrosphere, and its result, [133]–136.
Vegetation said to have been observed on lunar surface at margin of this libration, [134]–135.
Aqueous vapors of space considered with reference to thermal light of the sun, [147].
Spectroscopic analysis of atmospheres of the stars, [156]–161.
Interpretation of complementary colors of double stars, [163].
Mutual repulsion of similarly electrified atmospheres, [124], [166]–167.
Variability of regularly variable stars produced by dynamic action of their planets, [168].
Atmospheres of temporary stars, “suns in flames,” [195].
Effect upon planetary atmospheres of our system should our sun become such a “new star,” [196]–198.
Atmospheres of comets, [205], [212].
Atmospheric repulsion of sun and comet, [210].
Atmospheric attraction between planets and comets, [211].
Cyanogen as an element of cometic atmospheres, [216], [218].
Decomposition of cyanogen into non-toxic substances by contact of a comet with a planetary atmosphere, [218]–219.
Temperature of cometic atmosphere, [218].
Repulsion of cometic atmosphere by the sun’s electrosphere, [231], [235].
Development of planetary atmospheres during coalescence of ruptured convolutions of a spiral nebula into spheres, [291].
The attenuated vapors of space, [297]–298.
The square-shouldered aspect of Saturn’s atmosphere, first noticed by Herschel, explained, [302].
(See also Fig. [4], page [124].)
Barometric pressure of earth’s atmosphere highest in the temperate zones; its interpretation, [303].
Application of same principle to sun-spots, [303].
Should present atmospheres be conceived to be obliterated, new planetary and solar atmospheres would be generated precisely similar to those which now exist, [308]–309.
Solar light and heat would again be re-established, [309].
Atmospheres in their characteristic elements all due to electrolytic decomposition, [343], [344].

BIOLOGY.
Compared with astronomy, [10].
Splendid advances in, during past few years, [15].
Laws of, as related to those of astronomy, [247].
Mosaic cosmogony as related to, [320].
Order of succession in the introduction of life, according to the Mosaic narrative. (See latter title in Index.)

CHEMISTRY.
Hydrogen of solar photosphere and chromosphere, [39].
Oxygen in earth’s atmosphere, [45]–47.
Chemical elements in the sun, [47], [61].
Absence of free oxygen in the sun, [47], [69].
Absence of free oxygen in comets, [62].
Elements found in comets, [62], [212], [218].
Olefiant gas in comets, [207], [232].
Hydrogen, carbon, sodium, and cyanogen, [213], [214].
Carbon and hydrogen compared, [214], [217], [260].
Reactions of cyanogen, [217].
Decomposition of cyanogen by contact of comets with a planetary atmosphere, [218], [219].
Gases occluded in meteorites, [232].
Laws of crystallization, [247].
Chemistry of gaseous nebulæ, [254]–262.
Nitrogen, hydrogen, and (most probably) oxygen in all gaseous nebulæ, [254].
Possibly a more elemental condition of gases in nebulæ, [259].
Ammonium a hypothetical inorganic radical, [259].
Bright-line spectrum of gaseous nebulæ, [267].
Chemical changes during progression of spiral nebulæ, [287]–292.
Oxidation of terrestrial mass during coalescence, [292].
Phenomena of nature, [299], [341].

COMET.
Some of the phenomena of, can only be accounted for by electricity, [7].
Hydrogen and nitrogen in comets, but no oxygen, [62].
Description of the phenomena of comets, [200], [203], [210].
Trains of meteors follow track of comets, [203]–204, [206]–207, [232].
Formation of envelopes and tails, [205], [220].
Olefiant gas in comet and meteorite, [207], [232].
Electrical repulsion of comets’ tails, [208], [225]–231.
Mass and tenuity of comets, [209], [223].
Opposite electrical polarity of comets and planets, and similar polarity of sun and comets, [211], [233], [236].
Spectra of comets, [213].
Hydrogen compounds in comets, [213].
Temperature of cometic nucleus, [218].
Reversal of polarity of comet by contact with a planetary electrosphere, [233]–234.
Comets most frequently without tails, [222], [281].
Interpretation of the phenomena of comets, [235].
Repulsion of comets’ tails illustrating phenomena of gaseous nebulæ, [280].
Many comets transcend that of Newton in dimensions of their tails, [281].
Origin of comets by excessive repulsion from the nebular matter of a forming solar system, [289].
Phenomena of comets in accordance with universal laws governing celestial bodies, [346].

COSMOLOGY.
According to previously accepted views the visible order of creation must result in a final failure, [18].
Possible termination of present cycle of terrestrial life and possible renewal, [198].
Solar systems not necessarily individual creations, [165].
The word “creation” as rendered in our version of the Bible, [320].
Mosaic narrative (see this title in Index), [337]–340.
Mosaic cosmogony does not exclude prior material space, [320].
Original creation out of nothing forms no part of the Mosaic or of other primitive cosmologies, [320], [329], [330].
Nebular hypothesis not in accordance with Mosaic account of creation, [327].
Knowledge of cosmology among the ancients, [328], [329].
Ancient Egyptian cosmogony, [316].
Ancient Syriac cosmology, [330].
Second Mosaic narrative (the garden of Eden), [334]–336.
Literal translation of the Mosaic record of the creation, [337]–340.
Review of the system of cosmology embraced in the present work, [341]–348.
The harmony of nature’s operations, [341].
Universal cataclysms contrary to nature, [347], [348].

ELECTRICITY.
Electrical connection between earth and sun, [7].
Mere currents can play no part in the grander operations of nature, [8].
Repulsion by the sun of the solar corona, [55], [61].
Electricity, the universal source of repulsion, compared with gravity and affinity, the universal sources of attraction, [70].
Electricity considered with reference to solar energy, [70], [343].
Electrolysis, [70].
Laws of electricity, [70].
Currents constantly passing between earth and sun, [75].
The same considered in detail, [75]–76, [80], [343].
Velocity of these currents equal to that of light, [77].
Cannot pass through vacua, [81].
Heating effect of electrolyzing current, [83], [344].
Arc lamp, [83]–84.
Intense heat produced by current under water, operating through a hydrogen envelope surrounding a conductor, [85].
Electrical induction machines described, [88]–95, [344].
Their resemblance to rotating planetary electrospheres, [96], [345].
Mutual repulsion of similar electrospheres, [123]–125.
Analogy of reflex nervous system with electrical circuit, [136].
Phenomena of variable stars due to more or less concentrated electric currents from their encircling planets, [175].
Variation in constitution of, and currents in space affect the planetary generation of electricity, [188]–192.
Electricity between adjacent solar systems, [194].
Electrical repulsion of the tails of comets, [211], [235].
Electricity as an element in development of nebulæ, [284]–286.
Electrical repulsion operates to drive off the matter of future comets from condensing nebulæ, [289].

HYPOTHESIS. (See Theory.)
No adequate hypothesis, hitherto, to account for continuance of solar energy in the past, [17].
General statement of Laplace’s nebular hypothesis, [12].
The nebular hypothesis has not been proved, [35], [270]–278.
What it requires for its basis, [97], [274]–276.
Correct basis for hypothesis of solar energy, [141]–144, [286].
Nebular hypothesis considered in detail, [268]–278.
Contrast of nebular hypothesis with the present work, [306].
The Mosaic cosmogony, [308].
Nebular hypothesis deals only with aggregations, [309]–310.
The cosmogony of Genesis more scientific, [310].
Origin of Mosaic narrative, [310], [329]–330.
Egyptian cosmogony, [316].
Different hypotheses reviewed, [342].
All prior theories insufficient to account for the facts, [342].

LAW, NATURAL.
Some general law must control astronomical phenomena, [7].
But few fixed, controlling laws in nature, [14].
Natural laws eternal in their operation, [18].
Supremacy of natural laws, [100].
Gravitation cannot control star-drift in space, [64].
Universality and harmony, but not identity in the results of the operation of these laws, [68].
“A more wonderful law of harmony than those of Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton,” [80].
Indefinite approaches often prelude great discoveries, [80].
Laws of repulsion and attraction, [124]–127.
Harmony among all the solar systems, [145], [153].
Sphere of effective control under gravity, [241].
Universality of gravitation has been doubted, [241]–242.
Demonstration that gravity cannot control universally, [243]–245.
Proportionate and aggregate attractions between systems, [244].
Stars traverse space without reference to law of gravity, [246].
A higher law of movement indicated, [247], [249].
Comparison with the natural laws of biology, [247].
Laws operate constantly, but only manifest change at intervals, [248], [283].
The drift of stars through space, [249].
Interdependence between all created systems, [250]–252.
Astrology: its abandoned beliefs considered, [261].
Attraction and repulsion naturally correlated, [280].
Bode’s empirical law interpreted by development of the solar system from a spiral nebula, [287].
Arrest of moon’s axial rotation, [293].
Laws of Laplace, etc., [294].
Laws of movement in the development of solar systems, [298].
Basis of human knowledge, [299].
Interpretation of the laws of nature, [306]–307.
Operation of same laws which produced our solar and planetary atmospheres would reproduce similar ones if these were destroyed, [308].
Universality of natural laws, [347], [348].