The origin of the Earth
OCT 01, 1948
Pouring the evidence of many kinds of science into a single pot to answer this question, the author, an astrophysicist, finds that one is pushed successively from speculating on the origin of the earth to speculating on the origin of the solar system, the origin of stars, of nebulae, of galaxies, of the universe—on to the beginning of time.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3066159
With all the spectacular success of recent scientific research, it is perhaps refreshing to examine a field so characterized by failure as this one. Although many speculations have been described as “theories,” there exists today no real theory of the origin of the earth in the sense of a complete logical structure linking together the vast quantity of pertinent observations collected during the last century.
© 1948. American Institute of Physics
