旷世奇书《神秘化学(Occult Chemistry)》的故事（五）

    Whenever bubbles reversed direction, the tail would fade away, to

reappear on the opposite side. On the bubble's bow, small concentric

circles like shock waves formed along the surface, like a cap. Bubbles

seemed to consist of nothing but a boundary surface, with no struc-

tural features inside. Bubbles in what to Ron was thread number two

started out as mere squiggles of energy, pointed at both ends. Then the

squiggle got fatter, turning into the tadpole shape.

    To Phillips this bubble was clear a gluon, zero mass, all energy, an-

other form of the particle envisaged by physicists as binding quarks

into a nucleus. The threads emanating from a walnut were clearly tubes

of magnetic flux, that is, vortices in the ambient superconducting Higgs

vacuum along which were being channeled lines of magnetic flux emitt-

ed by the magnetic monopole UPAs or subquarks.

    Phillips found it significant that the bubbles were seen to be spin-

ning because both gluons and their hypothetical counterparts (hyper-

color gluons) are posted by physicists as having an intrinsic spin

angular momentum of 1. Their streaming back and forth along a 

thread—or flux tube—Phillips explained as resulting from their virtu-

ally continual emission and absorption by the UPAs at each end of 

the flux tube.

    So it appeared that the theosophists' dots of light in lines of force

were, as seen by Ron, actually spinning doughnut-shaped particles

(spin-1 gluons) that did not enter the UPA but were created and de-

stroyed at the boundary by the walnut-shaped surface enclosing it. 

This indicates, says Phillips, that particles of energy such as sub-

quarks and electrons are bundles of ten strings—a difference, says 

Phillips, that has yet to be discovered by physicists.

    Time will tell. Meanwhile Phillips wondered if Ron could shed light

on a particle more fundamental than the UPA of the theosophists,

the electron. Phillips says the reason Leadbeater and Besant didn't 

notice and described electrons is that while they were preoccupied 

with observing the double nuclei of their enormously bigger "atom,"

the infinitesimally smaller electron would have been flying past in the 

enormous void of the atom, since the electron's size, relative to the 

nucleus, is that of a BB lost in a six-acre field. Whereas the physicist'

chemical atoms are measured in ten-billions of a centimeter, weighing

a millionth of a billion-millionths of a gram, the atom's nucleus, 100,000

times smaller and five trillion times denser than uranium, occupies no

more than a trillionth of what is 99.9 percent empty space. There, the

electrons, 1,800 times lighter still than the lightest nucleus, are posited

as scurrying around at 99.99995 percent of the speed of light.

    Of all known elementary particles with a finite mass, the electron is 

the smallest and the lightest, its one millionth of one trillionth of a meter

width being the closest thing to a point particle, a sizeless geometric

point stillhaving mass. Absolutely stable, electrons are not known to

transform or transmute themselves, under any circumstance, into other 

bits of mass. The lightest of particles among nonzero mass particles, 

it could also be the oldest, estimated by physicists to be older than the 

universe. Its only enemesis is the positron. If they meet they both 

vanish, exploding into two massless photons and massless neutrino.

    In relation to the constituents of an atomic nucleus—protons, neu-

trons, quarks, and potential subquarks—the electron requires for its 

examination a magnifying power far greater than was developed by 

Besant and Leadbeater to view their ultimate physical atoms, consid-

ered to be the size of subquarks in the nucleus of a chemical atom.

    Ron focused on the material in his shirtsleeve and searched for

electrons. As recorded on the tapes, he zoomed down into a cloud

of them and saw that they seemed to be moving in circular orbits.

Capturing one, he noted its pretzel shape: a bundle of threads with a

hole or vortex at the top, much like the UPAs he had analyzed, only

much smaller, each encased within an egg-shaped, transparent, glass-

like shell.

    Entering a shell, he saw what looked a string of beads. Some-

thing made him shudder, and he explained it was a kundalini-type 

energy coming up from the base of his spine. He saw that what looked

like beads were in fact the folds of spirals. Capturing a bundle of these

threads, he saw that it made between two and three revolutions, the 

third not being quite full. But he could not see how the outer spirals

returned at the bottom into the central inner spirals.

    Examining the threads, he got the impression that there were two

—perhaps three—thicker whorls and some finer ones. Their undula-

tions impeded closer observation. The threads were separated by a

"trough" narrower before disappearing back down into the center vor-

tex. There the troughs twisted in a way he could not readily clarify.

    The width of the largest spiral in the sheath of threads was about

one-tenth of the spiral diameter, perhaps a little less, with a small gap

between each turn, but there were too many turns to easily count. 

Examining one of the thinner threads, or minor whorls, Ron saw an

even finer spiral inside what looked like a tube and remarked that there

was a "wind" inside the spiral that swept him down it. He could not see

this wind, only feel it, confined as he was to the central one-third of

the spiral.

    As Ron zoomed further in, he saw an even smaller spiral, more

tightly wound, its turns almost side by side. The wind blew down these

smaller spirals as well. Counting from the first type of spiral, Ron 

moved through six or seven orders, he voice becoming fainter as he 

counted.

    At last he saw bubbles, just as Leadbeater had reported in the UPAs,

almost spherical in shape. All had the same spin: clockwise seen from

above. The top of each bubble appeared quite dense and dark, with a 

small dimple. The lower portion was transparent. As Ron floated down

through the dimple deep into the bubble he sensed "a kind of quality of

intelligence ... a kind of consciousness" and suspected he had drifted 

into another kind of space, very large and otherwise featureless.

    In the body of the bubble Ron noticed a circular vortex-type activity,

but unlike a whirlpool the motion did not seem to end at a point. Then 

he found himself in an opaque or foggy space where he could see 

nothing. Dropping through it, he came to the trumpet end of the bubble,

but when he wanted to go back up to the edge, he could not do so. He

seemed to be forced along a closed path that took him back to where 

he had been before. Going around in circles, he felt his motion was

programmed or guided, for he could not contral it or stop it. Unable to

leave the closed circuit, Ron decided the only way out of his predica-

ment was to stop his meditation.

    Revirwing his experience, Ron saw that one way he could distin-

guish electrons from UPAs, despite the similarity of the structure of 

their whorls, was that the electron had no strings emanating from it

and appeared less energetically active than the UPA. Yet both the 

electron and the UPA shared the property that their whorls consisted

of higher orders of spirillae arranged as coils within coils. The essential

difference lay in the winding of the electron's strings, which decreased

progressively, as did the size of the pitch and thickness of the helices.

    That the electron should display higher-order spirillae that wind them-

selves in helices just as they do in the UPA was to be expected, says 

Phillips, because both particles are different states of a superstring:

The UPA with its ten whorls is a bundle of ten closed, twenty-six-

dimensional strings; electrons are superstrings without flux tubes em-

anating from them; gluons are single bosonic strings.

    Ron Cowen's observations indicate, says Pillips, that space has

more than the six higher dimensions predicted by superstring theory,

dimensions consistent with recent attempts by some string mathe-

matical theorist to buld superstrings out of more fundamental twenty-

six-dimensional bosonic strings, sixteen dimensions of which are 

compactified.

    Ultimately, as visualized by Ron, both UPA and electron consist of

bubbles that are actually tori, the same "bubbles" described eighty years

earlier by Leadbeater as " holes in koilon, the true aether of space." The

discrepancy between the spherical bubbles observed by Leadbeater and

the doughnuts seen by Ron is explained by Phillips: "Ron's doughnut

was spinning very rapidly and its torus shape was noticeable only when

he slowed down its rotation. Leadbeater did not notice its spinning and

so had no reason to stop its motion; all he saw was the blurred imaged

of a sphere and a torus, says Phillips, is crucial. Ron's torus (seen as a 

bubble by Leadbeater) is actually a two-dimensional cross-section of a

string that extends into fourteen more dimensions of space, and this 

would be consistent with the sixteen-dimensional torus, one of the model

spaces that have been considered by string theorists.

    This space is generated by sixteen mutually perpendicular one-

dimensional circles and has the topological property that a journey

along any one dimension leads back to the starting point—precisely

the property of the cyclic motion in which Ron found himself trapped.

    When Ron found himself lost in what he sensed was a different 

kind of space, in a bubble deep in the heart of an electron, " a space

with a kind of intelligence ... a kind of consciousness," he tentatively

speculated that this consciousness "had left a doorway into ... a larger

intelligence, a universal intelligence."

    To occultists, of course, nothing exists but consciousness, be it in

innumerable subtleties of degree. As for the force that holds both the 

UPA and the atom together, to Phillips it is bosons exchanged between

subquarks from the same quark, and gluons exchanged between sub-

quarks belonging to different quarks. What Ron confirmed was that

Leadbeater's "lines of force" were actually spinning, tubular surfaces

(vortices in the superconducting Higgs field) through which flowed

spinning particles (spin-1 gluons) that did not enter the UPA but were

created and destroyed at the boundary of the walnut-shaped surface

enclosing it.

    To Leadbeater: "The force does not enter the UPA from outside. It

wells up within—which means it enters from higher dimensions." As he

explains the phenomenon, dimensions of space are merely limitations of 

consciousness, and a sufficiently developed consciousness is entirely

free from such limitations, with the power of expression in any number of

dimensions. "Each descent into denser matter shuts off perception of

one of these dimensions. By the astral level it is limited to four dimen-

sions; further descent into the physical world limits it to three."

    Reverse the process, remove the limitations, and the universe be-

comes endowed with greater depth, richness, beauty, and harmony: in

all its beauty, grandeur, divinity, it is already there, always. It is we who

change as we increase or remove our limitations.

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