Solectrics: a Theory Explaining the Causes of Tempests, Seismic and Volcanic Disturbances, and how to Calculate their Time and Place

Abstract

THE “solectric theory” postulates a force which in some sense corresponds to the sun's radiant energy, giving rise to light, heat, chemical action, and magnetism, but the author also inserts gravity and vital force. Having introduced such a force, the author is able to explain the rotation of the earth, the obliquity of the ecliptic, and many other things. This solectric energy penetrates the whole solar system, and there is a constant adjustment of this force according to the configuration of the planets and moon. The sum is constant, the whole passing continually from and to the sun; only local disturbances have to be considered. At intervals the earth becomes charged with solectric energy, both directly from the sun and indirectly from the planets and moon. According to the length of time that the earth is submitted to this force, so its manifestation will vary. If the accumulated energy is spread over a large flat country or an ocean, a storm occurs; if the energy has been gathering for ten or twelve days, and is concentrated in a mountainous district, an earthquake takes place; if the earth has been surcharged for a month or more, volcanic eruptions follow. But whatever the form of the disturbance, it is necessary that the sun or moon should be 57½° or 88° from the position affected at the critical moment.

Solectrics: a Theory Explaining the Causes of Tempests, Seismic and Volcanic Disturbances, and how to Calculate their Time and Place.

By Alfred J. Cooper. Pp. iv+100; illustrated by over 100 diagrams. (London: J. D. Potter, 1910.) Price 10s.