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Phantagraph, v. 11, issue 1, May-June 1943
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3 THE PLANET TOO BIG TO SWALLOW By Copernicus Galt The discovery of the existence of a planet belonging to another star system than our own does not seem to have stirred up any discussion worthy of the name among the big-wigs of world science and philosophy. Which only goes to prove the myopia of most of these gentlemen. For it is a fact which explodes dozens of theories of cosmogony and philosophy. The discovery that such a planet would exist is big; that it was detected first in the system of a binary star is even more of a sting. For orthodox astronomers, with their many super-complex and utterly fantastic theories of the creation of planets, were almost united in the declaration that not only were more planets scarce, they could certainly never exist in so complex a force pattern as a double star. That their theories were knocked into cocked hats should surprise no one who has ever applied an ounce of horse sense to the subject of the universe. Not that horse sense is always right, but in this case anybody would assume that planets were more likely to be multifold than otherwise and that a star without planets was the true freak. The universe is packed full of flying junk; our own insignificant world is pounded with millions of chunks of matter a day. It stood as common sense that any matter large enough to have a strong gravital pull would in the course of time attract to itself a part of the constant storm of matter. No star could go for long without picking up comets; where [the?] comets fly, more substantial masses fly too. Our sun may have ten thousand comets in its grasp. It does have nine major planets. Any sun the same size or larger should be able to do as well.
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3 THE PLANET TOO BIG TO SWALLOW By Copernicus Galt The discovery of the existence of a planet belonging to another star system than our own does not seem to have stirred up any discussion worthy of the name among the big-wigs of world science and philosophy. Which only goes to prove the myopia of most of these gentlemen. For it is a fact which explodes dozens of theories of cosmogony and philosophy. The discovery that such a planet would exist is big; that it was detected first in the system of a binary star is even more of a sting. For orthodox astronomers, with their many super-complex and utterly fantastic theories of the creation of planets, were almost united in the declaration that not only were more planets scarce, they could certainly never exist in so complex a force pattern as a double star. That their theories were knocked into cocked hats should surprise no one who has ever applied an ounce of horse sense to the subject of the universe. Not that horse sense is always right, but in this case anybody would assume that planets were more likely to be multifold than otherwise and that a star without planets was the true freak. The universe is packed full of flying junk; our own insignificant world is pounded with millions of chunks of matter a day. It stood as common sense that any matter large enough to have a strong gravital pull would in the course of time attract to itself a part of the constant storm of matter. No star could go for long without picking up comets; where [the?] comets fly, more substantial masses fly too. Our sun may have ten thousand comets in its grasp. It does have nine major planets. Any sun the same size or larger should be able to do as well.
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