Citation

Jeans J. Br. J. Radiol. 1931; 4(43): 351-354.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1931, British Institute of Radiology)

DOI

10.1259/0007-1285-4-43-351

PMID

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Abstract

"The Mysterious Universe" was the subject of the Rede Lecture delivered by Sir James Jeans at Cambridge on Nov. 5, 1930.The lecturer began with a characteristic figure to express the littleness of our world in space. A few stars were known, he said, which were hardly bigger than the earth, but the majority were so large that hundreds of thousands of earths could be packed inside each and leave room to spare; here and there we came upon a giant star large enough to contain millions of millions of earths. And the total number of stars in the universe was probably something like the total number of grains of sand on all the seashores of the world.

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