In Starry Skies, Part XII - Some Present Day Problems

Reprinted from The Evening Post, Wellington, New Zealand, March, 1934.135 pages. Foxing. Staples rusted. Spine taped.

From Bickerton's speculations on whirling coalescence, the possibilities of which he himself did not appear to realise, Gifford has derived a theory of the origin of the solar system. Stars are only bright suns for so many million years after an encounter. Gifford explains the origin of the solar system by the almost complete collision of two suns, one of which is denser than the other.
Gifford was mathematical Master at Wellington College...