On Röntgen's Rays

Abstract

PROF. RÖNTGEN'S remarkable discovery will materially affect our views concerning the relation between the ether and matter; but further experimental evidence is required before any opinion can be expressed as to the character of the rays, which behave in so straightforward a manner that they seem to upset all one's notions of the laws of nature. Prof. Röntgen, on the strength of his carefully-conducted experiments, has arrived at a conclusion adverse to the idea that the rays only differ from light rays by the smallness of wave-length. Perhaps the following considerations may show that the evidence is not conclusive in this respect.