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LIGHT: Light always has velocity Light, whether from a tiny lamp or from the sun is propagated in all directions from its source at the rate of 1,86,000 miles per second This is such an unchanging consiant velocity that modern scientists have adopted it as a unit to measure the velocities of, and the distances between celestial bodies, moving rapidly in cosmic space Sometimes before, it was believed that light is weightless, but now it has been establishcd that though it is electro-magnetic in character, it does possess weight In fact, it is known that the weight of sun light falling on a square mile per minute is 2-112 tolas.
ELECTRICITY There are two kinds of electric charges--positive and negative The unit of the former is a proton and that of the latter an electron Every material body in this world has, therefore, an electrical origin, for all matter is composcd of atoms which in turn are composed of electrical particles The lightening which is produced by the friction of clouds is not different in character to this electricity. Modern science knows innumerable ways of generating and controlling electricity and it has become & thing of every day use for the human race
Atom Bomb and Hydrogen Bomb Atom bomb and Hydrogen bomb are also astonish:ng results of the primordial forces of
