Cease Your Worry, World Will Last Ten Billion More Years

1920

Paris, April 13 — There's no need to worry about the end of the world for another ten thousand million years, according to Charles Nordmann, the well known scientific writer. Basing his opinion on the latest researches, M. Nordmann states that the rays of the sun, the source of all terrestrial life, should last at least 10,000,000,000 more years, unless there is a collision between the solar body and another planet.

Two famous savants, Hermoltz and Henri Poincare, estimated that the sun would have burned itself out within eight million years, but the recent discovery that the solar mass contains immense deposits of radium, means the sun's heat will have a vastly greater duration.

—The Chronicle Telegram, Elyria, Ohio, April 14, 1920, page 9.