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SCIENTIST EVOLVES NEW SPACE THEORY

• Russell, In Book Out To-Day,

Attacks Present Beliefs

'SOLIDS ARE. ELECTRICITY'

Energy Forces Welded Together by Gravitation,He Says

Walter Rus,seU, President of the

I Society of Arts and Sciences, believes he has evolved a. new theory to explain the laws of splltce and the heavenly bodies that move in it.

Let our scientists bend their energies to the understanding of thls

l"simple" principle, according to Mr. Russell, and an ocean steamshlp like the Leviathan could easily produce her own fuel from sea water "in a machine not larger than & newspaper printing press."

This new theory ls· expounded in Russell's new book, "The Russell Genero-Radiative Concept, or the Cyclic Theory of Continuous' Motion," which is out to-day. It Is an

Ie . elaboration and expansion, he states in the preface of his book. "The Universal One," published four years ago. •

Criticises Modern Science It was in that book, he states. that

he specifically outlined the unity of electricity and gravitation, which, three' years later, was .announced- by Einstein without "crediting hlm with priority of discover'"

In his new book Mr. Russell suggests that a "major surgical operation upon the present beliefs" Is the only salvation for present-day science.

The writer opens his attack upon these bellefs by challenging Newton's principle that the planets would fall

a into the sun and the moon into the earth if their orbital motions were stayed. This he claims to have proved untrue by a "solar graVitational" experiment in whi-ch a miniature modeH

- of the sc-lar system Is set up, with - 1ts poles Similarly placed. When all

these revolving planets and satellit~s e are stopped they show no inclination

to fall in to one another.

r other Incorrect Notion!! 1 Even our notions of gravitation and .. radiation are , incorrect, Russell L. further asserts. Solids are composed I. of electricity and owe their existence r to the power of gra vi ta tion to keep 1. electrical forces welded together into - what we term solids. Gravitation he

defines as being the "charging positive force which pulls inward from within. while radiation is the discharging negative force which pushes outward from within." -~

Betw #3n every two maF \Se~! space, Russell maintains, the l d entre

: of gravitation arou~ 0 -:::11 ~h , 1 revolve In orbit~- 'C"-! Theselti.~ . held together by 'ne pole " ~

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SCIENTIST 'W1ao E'V'ol'V'ed Theory of Space

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apart by another, these two poles de- a: ciding the potential relations and Sl

orbital motions of any two heavenly II

bodies. d "This hitherto undiscovered spatial CI

control of mass," Russell goes 'on, "is fl the connecting link between mind s j and matter, the invisible and the visible universes. All soUds are merely polarized extensions of the et)ntrolling poles in space and obey their w11l, just as man-made machines are extensions Of men's minds and obey their will."

,Weight Is • DImension ,

On this theory it follows, according to Ru.ssell. that moving bodies have no weight and that weight is a dimension of motion, just as temperature in all Its changes rises from and settles back to its position of equilibrium at zero. I

The Russell' t~ory , tries to disprove the generally held belief that like charges repel and OPpOSite charge:; attract one ,~tnother. In point of fact he would have us believe all masses are doubly chiuged, or, to put it dIfferently, there is no such thing as a negative charge, for that is but an- a other way of designating a discharge,

"Many new metals of great value to S,

industry can be secured," he c'on- v tends, "by understanding nature's '" simple but hitherto unknown principlES. Carbon metals, for example, f( will have steel. Silicon steel will be- h come an .. il1eal structural steel, with B more than double its present strength, e: and very much cheaper because of 'P , the unlimited supply of sand as com- S' pared with iron ore." n

Sir Arthur Eddington's theory of a d "running down universe" is treat-ad d" satirically by Russell, who counters b with the assertion: "All things are P growing things, whether stars or ap- Ii , pIes, and all growing things tallow t~ the same law," tc

"I beJ!eve. there!ore," he says, "th3.t all motton iI!I the result of setting up an endless .series of high and low pressure conditions which are interchanging in their constant and useless - attempts to equalize. ThIs can never be accompliShed &0 long as the One Force • & Hving, pulsating orce."





\ , A'll'! LE ON EXHIBITIth' F I'ADTI U\ BY JlALrER RU..:.3ELL "THE INVISIBLE

UNIVl<:~,jE" AT 'mE J.uJSEUM CF SG IENGE 'AIm' I.IDUJTRY Ob' NEW YL,RK, 0 pened

Ma.y 25th, 1931

by ~'uriel Bruce

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When scientists fall ou , who can be umpire? 542 • FIFTH AYE

Answer -- the artist, for seeing is believing. CHEW YORK CITY

Sir J~es Jeans, distinguished scientist from Engla.nd. is going about

the United States announcing his belief that the univerllJe is rushing h~ad

long to aes~ruction, like a prodigal son on a down-hill path with never

a chance of a comeback.

Will ter 11 ussell, fruno'lls a<l anAmer lcan artie t and sculptor, n ; t only

meets t.his Iessimistic theory with arguments dO 10giC's.1 that scienti~ts

have been fo~ced to stop and listen, but ha .. painted a series of lJi;;tt r ..

to illustrate his contentions. Eight of these paintings are now hanging

in the 'useum of ucience and Industry of new York fOl' all the world --

and the scientists -- to see.

The universe. Mr. Russell says. is doing nicely. swinging alone under

a fifty-fifty rule of'. give-and-take, and not -- as "i,. ,Tames dpdlares -

being constantly annihilated in the depths of inter-stellar sj:ace, which

proces." one of these days. 'would exhaust the source of life. Until now,

~ir James has had the floor, but si'!ce Yay 25th lalter Rusdell's ;Jlcture8

hav been on view in the l~useum, a,nd accllrding to his explanation of tneir

vivid beauty, they suggest that uir James may be wrong.

The pictures sho that for every expenditure of the univer~al energy

there i~ a simul~Aneous and curreeponding re-birth, and that there ~s

therefore no danger of the runnir. down of the cosmic clock. Scientistu

have looked at these pictured, and are wmdering . Many of them. in fact,

are study:ing the paintings with a view to fi ,d ing out just !-tOVI fa.r their

vlciualioed concepts can he furt_er tested in the laboratory.





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It is a new idea. Until now, the invisible universe ha.; remained

invisible, even to the phy~ic' s who have measured and re-measured it

-- but who do not appear to have arrived at any satisfactory conclusion

about its fundall'enta.la. lor have the physiciits, to date, been able to

break down any of the laws of the Rus.,ell concept of the universal ma

chinery. They see them. but are dtill un'l'illing to believe.

A well-known ph1 sicist, on t· e staff of a university renowned for

scientific ir.tegrity, said -- after many talks witn the artist -- "I

can see your !:Joint, r. ~us.;ell. But after a lifetime of training aJ.ong

other lines. I find it difficult to go on seeing it:

To W"1 ich the arti st replied cheerfully -- "7ha t, professor , is exac'ly

why I had to paint these p~ tures. so that you could go on seeing them

until YOll accent my two-y~ theory of the one force of the universe."

As a matte" of fact, it. wad at the sugge.;tion of a scientist that the

pictures were l'ainted . Twelve years ago, ,.alter Russell had reached the

top of the artistic ladder in J~eri c~. He had not even begun to think

about how t~e unive1"se works . vixty thc~sand a year was h~s average

earning capacity. for this man's genius is not the kind that starves in

garrets. He is one of the first five Ameri a~ sulptors and portrait

painters, and has beEn for some time the president of the Jociety of Arts

and Sciences. He has been acknowledged as the father of the co-cp erative

apartment idea. for he was one of the first of the experimentalists in

that field to make the sy~tem practical and se~f-supporting. This is tho

man who ten years ago suddenly became convinced that he, through the inner,

awakened eye of the ~rtidt, nad seen the universe e~actly nd it is, in

terms of color, and who, as a result of his vision, threw his career to

the V' i nds and started in to describe what he had seen. He turned, for

the first time, to the study of science. which alone could provide him

with the neces.,ary vo cabulary.





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History repeats itself. The first expression of a nev idea invariably

fal~s on stony ground -- but if a seed of truth be there, it will find

an earth-filled cranny and begin to sprout. Walter Russell spent a for

tune in the printing of a book which told of his inspired convictions in

Vlord;;, and in diagrams and charts which are at once so sublimely cle ar

and yet 60 complicated that hardly any bOdy can understand them. Mr.

Russe~l sent copies of thi s book to men prominent in many lines of en

deavor. but at that time science believed the atom to be indestructible.

and the Russell concept i s not in agreement with tnat theory.

The books were tossed aside. But the ortist held to his beliefs.

and early in 1931 we find him in the study of an eminent few York

physicist. discussing the winding and unwinding of the universe. Paper

and pencil were called irto action that the artist might prov e to the

professor thnt the machinery is not running down. but is functioning

two ways -- tearing down and building up at the same time through polari

sation. which is the meeting of two opposed forces under the attr ction

of gravitation and the repulsion of radiation for the purJose of repro

duction. And at last :-- "If only." said Walter Russell passionately. "I

could show it tv you as I see it. in colors!"

"Vlell." said the professor. "you're an artist. aren't yw? ',;hy not

paint it?"

So it happened th, t in an incredibly short space of time 11alter

Russell was back in the study. probably the happiest man in America.

'Ii th him came a canvas. which he said was the first of a series illus

trating in all the colors of the spectrum his ideas of how the universe

works . The scientist saw. and was enthusiastic. He suggested that the

picture be eXhibited, and later he wrote Mr . Russell a letter which ran

in part as follows:





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"If through Rinting you can express your ideas, which you explained

to me briefly in words, I am inclined to think that you have f ound the

basis of a new art, an art which is best fitted to interpret inanimate

nature, rather than animate nature. I believe that anyone capable of

underata~ding your paintings will have a much clearer conception of

universal :aves than he would through any text-book descriptlon. I

sincerely hope that you wi1 find it possible to complete the series of

sixty or.more pair-tings which you have in mind. I wish you every succes"."

The eight pictures now hanglnB in the Museum demonstrate the principle

that there is only one force in t he universe, seemingly divided into two,

ever striving for equili brium in the never-ceasing process of creation.

Everything in the universe contains both phases of this force negative

and .os itive, radiative and gravitative, feminine and masculine, expanling

and contracting. The seven colors of the spectrum, being 60 divided, show

all processes of expansion on the blue half, and all contraction on the

red he.lf, with yellow being the high-pressure balancir.g point at the

centre.

If lalter Russell-is right, science will have to look to her laurels

and art will score a triumph. He is the younger son of a car ;:>enter in

a 1i ttle assachusetts town, and has risen fro:r.J. the position of carpen

ter ' s assistanT to that of a great artist simply by the power of his

own creative ability. He hes ea.rned his way froll! the bottom up -- the

sale assistance he ever received being a ten dolia bi.!.l from a kindly

uncle when he was determi ned to work his way through art-school. ~Ial ter

Russell stands on one side of the startling picture of "s .tence at tne

cross-roads." On the other stands the noble co,npany of Jeans, Eddington,

lUlli.l.<an, and the older scientists, Newton, Ke'ler, find tne rest of

those great trail-breakers who paved the way for radios and airplanes,





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for television and the younger chi.ldren of the e~ctric fami.ly not yet

born to a generation so accustomed to miracles that It does not even

see them when they come.

Whatever gr0ws out of it all, one thing is clear. Never bet'ore in

history has art in its purest inspirational form joined hands with

science to help humanity understand the structure of the world, of ~an,

and 0 f tile uni verse.

Here is a new thing under theS un, the invisible made visible in

terms of beauty. Only an artist co ld have accomplished it, and only

an artist could have held to his dream through years of discouragement

until the commg of his opportunity. A contemporary poet has said that

every scientist has in him something of the s1)irit <) f the artist, and

every true artist is fundamentally a scientist. If 7ialter Russell has

aChieved nothing more th'1.n a visible proof of this hypothesis, his ac

complishment has been w~ll worth 'r/hile . .'l.nd it is possible that he has

proved, ad we.tl, that by understanding the universe as it really is,

manity may di3ca~d all ideaa of cllaos, and begin to function under "he

law of har,llonious order, wh ich alone makes for ''leal th, ha)pine!:ls and the

development of a gre!l.ter civil12;ation . If the theories of this artist-

scientist are proved workable, they '.IJuld seem to hold the promise of an .. immense step forward not only in physics, 'but ill chemi!:ltry, metallurgy,

and all inds.try.





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