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The Smoky God

The Smoky God is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand The Smoky God rather than just read about it. In short: The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is a book presented as a true account written by Willis George Emerson in 1908, which describes the adventures of Olaf Jansen, a Norwegian sailor who sailed with his father through an entrance to the Earth's interior at the North Pole. Plot introduction For two years Jansen lived with the inhabitants of an underground network of colonies who, Emerson writes, were…

Key takeaways

The Smoky God belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect The Smoky God to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of The Smoky God from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is a book presented as a true account written by Willis George Emerson in 1908, which describes the adventures of Olaf Jansen, a Norwegian sailor who sailed with his father through an entrance to the Earth's interior at the North Pole.

Plot introduction For two years Jansen lived with the inhabitants of an underground network of colonies who, Emerson writes, were 12 feet tall and whose world was lit by a "smoky" central sun. Their capital city was said to be the original Garden of Eden. Later works by other authors, such as Agartha - Secrets of the Subterranean Cities, have identified the civilization Jansen encountered with Agartha (a mythical subterranean city), although Emerson did not use the name.

External links

The Smoky God at Project Gutenberg The Smoky God, at sacred-texts.com The Smoky God public domain audiobook at LibriVox

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with The Smoky God

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what The Smoky God claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to The Smoky God before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about The Smoky God ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of The Smoky God

In research: The Smoky God appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses The Smoky God in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: The Smoky God is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1900s novel stubs, 1908 American novels, 1908 English-language novels, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for The Smoky God outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study The Smoky God in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what The Smoky God means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain The Smoky God out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is The Smoky God in simple terms?

Why does The Smoky God matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study The Smoky God?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on The Smoky God.