Magnetism and Aether
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:47 pm
I've recently been reading a number of books from the 19th century concerning magnetism and the associated phenomenon of "aether" and "odic force" (Reichenbach). In the early days of research, the ideas of an aether, described by Nikola Tesla as "charges in an insulating fluid" was quite popular, though many researchers did not agree on the nature of aether, itself, some concluding it was an "incompressible solid", others, like Tesla, a fluid, and still others, a gaseous medium.
I have been conducting some experiments with magnets recently, and found a number of anomalies. One that Gopi brought up was a question of where the kinetic energy comes from to physically turn a compass needle?
Magnetic poles, and the associated lines of force, appear identical to the electric poles and lines of force. The magnetic pole can be reduced to a single point, with lines of flux running from north to south, just as electric lines of force run from + to -. And they behave by the same set of rules... like repels like, opposites attract, and the inverse square law applies to net force.
The primary difference is that magnetic lines are concentrated by mass (temporal displacements), and electric lines of force are concentrated by dielectrics (spatial displacements)--an inverse relationship.
From this, it appears that magnetism may be the POLAR (yin) aspect of inverse motion (t/s relationship), whereas dielectric fields are the RECTANGULAR (yang) aspects of the same motion.
The next question that arises is, how does the relationship t/s, energy in general, exist in the Material sector, which is defined by relationships of s/t
It may be that each sector (material, cosmic) may have a macrocosmic sub-sector division of "matter" and "energy", similar to what Nehru postulated for the "atomic" and "nuclear" zones within the atom.
The t/s relationship is consider to be "cosmic", having its coordinate motion in time, rather than space. A projection of this t/s motion into the material sector of s/t may appear as a type of "aether" or "odic force", exactly as Tesla describes with his "charges [t/s] in an insulating fluid [cosmic progression]".
One of the major conceptual differences between Larson's original work and RS2 is that Larson considers the material and cosmic sectors to be separate, only linking during "Level 2" biological events. The RS2 concept is similar to Nick Thomas' work on Counterspatial linkages, where the two sectors are strongly linked together, each influencing the other right down to the sub-atomic level. This linkage may well explain the 'aether' idea, popular with the 19th century researchers.
I have been conducting some experiments with magnets recently, and found a number of anomalies. One that Gopi brought up was a question of where the kinetic energy comes from to physically turn a compass needle?
Magnetic poles, and the associated lines of force, appear identical to the electric poles and lines of force. The magnetic pole can be reduced to a single point, with lines of flux running from north to south, just as electric lines of force run from + to -. And they behave by the same set of rules... like repels like, opposites attract, and the inverse square law applies to net force.
The primary difference is that magnetic lines are concentrated by mass (temporal displacements), and electric lines of force are concentrated by dielectrics (spatial displacements)--an inverse relationship.
From this, it appears that magnetism may be the POLAR (yin) aspect of inverse motion (t/s relationship), whereas dielectric fields are the RECTANGULAR (yang) aspects of the same motion.
The next question that arises is, how does the relationship t/s, energy in general, exist in the Material sector, which is defined by relationships of s/t
It may be that each sector (material, cosmic) may have a macrocosmic sub-sector division of "matter" and "energy", similar to what Nehru postulated for the "atomic" and "nuclear" zones within the atom.
The t/s relationship is consider to be "cosmic", having its coordinate motion in time, rather than space. A projection of this t/s motion into the material sector of s/t may appear as a type of "aether" or "odic force", exactly as Tesla describes with his "charges [t/s] in an insulating fluid [cosmic progression]".
One of the major conceptual differences between Larson's original work and RS2 is that Larson considers the material and cosmic sectors to be separate, only linking during "Level 2" biological events. The RS2 concept is similar to Nick Thomas' work on Counterspatial linkages, where the two sectors are strongly linked together, each influencing the other right down to the sub-atomic level. This linkage may well explain the 'aether' idea, popular with the 19th century researchers.