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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2765, 21 March 1910, Page 3

An> interesting; experiment was recently performed 'by a. Baltimore professor Dr Robert Wood, of John Hopkins University, the result of which was the creation of a miniature mirage. A large sheet of iron plate overlaid with sand was converted into a desertl under which .a' series of gas burners‘were placed to heat the sand. A mirror reflected' the sun upon a white sheet of paper at one end of the artifical desert, the paper serving as the clear skyline. According to the : ‘New York Tribune,” when the sand got fairly hot, an observer looking along its surface at some little piles of sand at the end toward the white paper could almost (believe that just a little way in front of the piles of sand there was a clear pool of crystal water on the iron plate. Discussing “The Modern Conception of the Universe” at the Royal United Service Institution, Mi* G-. F. C. Se&rle said' that while the total amount of energy remained unchanged, there was at present ai progressive diminution in its ~availability, amd dt pointed remorselessly to a time when the energy would he &0i distributed that further distribution' would' 'be impossible. When the. further redistribution of energy ceased to he possible the universe would be physically and' chemically inert; in. simple words, they anight say that it would'be dead.