曠世奇書《神秘化學(Occult Chemistry)》的故事（四）

    Having established in his book UPAs are the as yet Undetected

constituents of "Up" and "down " quarks in the protons and neutrons

of atomic nuclei, Phillips realized in 1984 that there are similarities be-

tween features of the UPA and a superstring that suggest strongly that

the former are simply subquark states of the latter.

    In the summer of 1984 two physicists, John Schwarz and Michael

Green, respectively at the California Institute of Technology and Lon-

don's Queen Mary College, made what Phillips calls "an exciting dis-

covery." By treating fundamental subatomic particles as extended

objects that look like pieces of string rather than as single points in 

space, they eliminated a long-standing problem afflicting quantum

field theory. This, however, required that space-time have ten dimen-

sions instead of Einstein's four. The theory that emergeed from this

breakthrough, as described by Phillips, pictures the basic particles of

matter as a kind of vibration taking place along closed curves in a ten-

dimension space-time continuum. All known particles, such as elec-

trons, neutrinos, quarks, and photons are conceived as vibrational and

rotational modes of these stringlike curves or superstrings.

    According to this new theory, the physical properties of particles

depend upon the nature of the curled-up or "compactified" six-dimen-

sional space that exists at every point of ordinary three-dimensional

space. One of the simplest models of such a six-dimensional space is

a "six-dimensional torus" or doughnet in which at every point of three-

dimensional Euclidean space there are six mutually perpendicular one-

dimensional circles around which the superstring winds as it moves

through space.

    In what amount to a major breakthrough, Phillips points out that

    1. just as each of the ten whorls of a UPA is a closed curve, so the

    favored model of a superstring is that of a closed string or curve;

    2. each of the 1,680 coils in a UPA whorl is a helix wound around

    a torus, and each of the latter's seven turns is another helix wound

    seven times around a smaller torus, and so forth. There are six or-

    ders of progressively smaller helices, each one winding seven times

    around a circle at right angles to the circular turns of adjacent orders.

    This matches one of the models of the hidden "compactified," six-

    dimensional space of superstrings considered by phisicists, namely

    the six-dimensional torus. Each order of helix is simply the winding of

    a string about the six differently sized, circular dimensions of a six-

    dimensional torus.

    To counter possible objections from string theorists, Phillips shows

that a superstring is not one string (as theorists currently assume) but

is a bundle of ten separate, nontouching strings identical to so-called

bosonic strings, which some physicists believe are more fundamental

than superstrings and for which quantum mechanics predicts all of

twenty-six dimensions. According to Phillips, the UPA is the subquark

state of a superstring, each of its ten whorls being a closed twenty-six-

dimensional bosonic string, the lowest six tornoidally compactified di-

mensions of which manifested to Leadbeater as the six higher orders

of helices, making up each of the 1,680 turns of a whorl.

    All of which leads Phillips to a conclusion. "The excuses for dis-

believing the claims of psychics," asserts Phillips, "are irrelevant in 

the context of their highly evidential descrptions of subatomic par-

ticles published in 1908, two years before Rutherford's experiments

confirmed the nuclear model of the atom, five years before Bohr pre-

sented his theory of the hydrogen atom, 24 years before Chadwick dis-

covered the neutron and Heisenberg proposed that it is a constituent

of the atomic nuclei, 56 years before Gell-Mann and Zweig theorised

about quarks. Their observation are still being confirmed by discover-

ies of science many years later."

    Once more the theosophists, using descriptions of matter more 

comprehensible than the abstruse mathematical symbols of the aca-

demics, let alone their Alice-in-wonderland verbiage, appear to have

stolen a march on the physicists.

                                           CHAPTER 9

                                       Inside the Electron

At this point there appeared on the scene another psychic with an even

more particulate bluprint for the Higgs theory and its superstring bed-

fellow. In 1991 Phillips was contacted by a Canadian psychotherapist in

Toronto, Ron Cowem, who had recognized in Phillips's book pictures

similar to the mental images he exerienced during the Buddhist medi-

tations he had been practicing for twenty years. Ron Cowen claimed 

that his siddhi or micro-psi ability manifested in 1985 during meditation

while studying the Theravadan Abhidhamma, an ancient Buddhist text. 

Could this psychic, Phillips wondered, adduce insight into the nature 

and mechanics of quarks?

    Some years earlier, atom smashers at SLAC had identified the parti-

cle that carries the force required to keep quarks glued together as they

whirl around in their proton prison: aptly the SLACkers christened it a

gluon. Gluons are members of the family of energy particles—such as

photons and pions—collectively known as bosons after the Indian 

physicist S. N. Bose, to distinguish them from more material particles

—such as protons, quarks, and omegons—collectively called fermions 

in honor of Enrico Fermi. The zero-mass gluon was seen to be absorb-

ed and emitted in continuous streams by quarks, creating a binding 

force, progressively stronger with distance, that keeps the quarks 

permanently trapped within protons and neutrons.

    In Phillips's model his omegons, or subquarks—tree to a quark—are

equally confined by the same absorption and emission, only of "hyper-

gluons," particles analogous to gluons. As physicists picture protons

to be triplets of quarks held together by Y-shaped strings of gluons,

Phillips pictures quarks as triplets of omegons held together by Y-

shaped hypergluons. Only how to substantiate his theory?

    Intrigued by the prospect of further validating the nature of the Lead-

beater and Besant UPA, or subquark, Phillips traveled to Toronto to 

the Dharma Center, a Buddhist meditational retreat, where he tape-

recorded Ron Cowen in several many-houred sessions as the psychic

used his remarkable talent to delve even deeper into the microscopic

world of superstrings and gluons.

    In a detailed paper—of which the following account is but a précis

—Phillips describes how Ron, given a capsule of hydrogen, but without

being told what it contained, used his ESP to penetrate the glass and

capture an object that gave him the impression of consisting of two 

overlapping triangles with spheres at their corners—clearly, says 

Phillips, two hydrogen nuclei, precisely as described by the theoso-

phists.

    Already Ron was validating the theosophists' observations by not-

ing the diatomic gas molecule he had chosen to collapse into a brief

"chaos" before reforming it into a facsimile of the "atom"described by

Leadbeater and Besant. What they had observed—it was now clear

to Phillips—were not the actual atoms but restablized forms created

from pars of atomic nuclei destabilized by being viewed psychokine-

tically.

    Pulling apart the triangles of what were evidently quarks in the hyd-

ragen nucleus, Ron increased his magnifying power to scrutinize one

of the corner spheres, which contained what looked to him like three

walnuts joined together into a fan-shaped cloverleaf by three looping

threads or strings: precisely the triplet of UPAs that the theosophists

called a "hydrogen triplet"—today's quark.

    Ron said two of the walnuts were facing him, whereas the third faced

away. He got a snapshot of one walnut having flipped its axis, sensing

that the other had also done so simultaneously. All three walnuts now 

took turns at being odd-man-out, the rhythm of flipping being regular

with both walnuts and threads attached to them. This synchronized ran-

dom flipping of three UPAs in a hydrogen triplet, or quark, says Phillips,

is remarkable confirmation of the superposition principle of quantum

mechanics. All known particles in the universe are divisible into two

groups: particles of spin 1/2, which make up matter—protons, quarks, 

electrons—and particles of spin 0, 1, and 2, which provide the forces

—gluons, photons, pions. The indefinite spin state of each spin-1/2

subquark pointing in opposite directions at different instants in time but

coordinated in such a way as to create a quark-bound state with overall

spin of 1/2, indicates, says Phillips, that Ron was observing the quantum

nature of spin.

    Taking a closer look at walnut, Ron saw that two threads came out

of it, one of which appeared fainter than the other. The clearer one

looked like a tangled, twisted piece of string, which could be pulled

out into a straight line with little effort and which, on being relaxed, 

resumed its tangled state.

    Thinking he would see a spiral within one of these strings, Ron mag-

nified it. Instead he saw a stream of bubbles flowing back and forth

so quickly he could not observe the moment they reversed direction. 

As the bubble came out of the walnut in single file to move along what

looked like a tube, some form of energy appeared to expand them to 

their maximum over a distance of up to ten bubble diameters, Then

the current reversed.

    That Ron should be able to see and describe such a bubble was 

amazing enough, the diameter of the walnut-subquark being some-

where in the neighborhood  of .0000000000000000000000000000

00000001 cm.

    Fastening his attention onto a single bubble, Ron saw that as it

moved through the tube the tube rotated one instant in one direction,

next in the opposite, clockwise as the bubbles moved away, counter-

clockwise as they moved toward him, though again he could not

distinguish the actual instant of transition. Estimating the distance be-

tween successive bubbles as about six times the width of a bubble, 

Ron noted that as each bubble passed, the tube seemed collapse very

slightly, its edges no sharper than the boundary between two liquids.

    Managing to move along with a bubble—obviously not moving his

physical body but his viewpoint—Ron saw that it was shaped like a fat

doughnut, with an indented sort of cap that led the bubble's motion

and trailed a tail. Wanting to see what was happening close up to one

of the walnuts, Ron approached a thread that appeared to link two

walnuts. Inside the thread, close to the walnut's outer surface, he found

himself moving in a graceful spiral. Down he went, like Alice in Wonder-

land, through the coils of the UPA, about three times counter-clockwise,

then along another spiral in a clockwise sense, feeling himself being

swept along, losing count of the turns. Deciding to follow the rotation

of the thread as seen from outside rather than by moving along it, Ron

went back up to the top of the UPA and got out of its vortex. This en-

abled him to establish an essential feature of the threads: they were

one single thread.

    Following a few clockwise turns, as seen from above, the path went

down a narrow vortex, made a very tight turn, came up around itself in

a 180-degree turn, went back up, winding about itself for perhaps an-

other half turn, then made violent corkscrew motion and passed out

through the wall of the walnut-UPA as what appeared to be a meander-

ing second thread. This established that the two separate threads ob-

served outside the UPA were actually part of one continuous thread. 

At no time was a break seen in the path. So where did the bubbles

come from and where did they go? Moving back close to a thread, 

Ron noticed that as a bubble in the thread entered the walnut it got

suddenly larger and became a puff of mist. This occurred at the sur-

face and caused a slight shock were to dissipate inside the walnut while

the bubble disappeared before reaching the graceful gentle curve inside

its host. On the other side of the walnut, relatively smaller bubbles

streamed gently out through the other end of the thread, appearing as

if from nothing.

    On closer inspection, the bubbles seemed to Ron to be created in

the corkscrew spiral near the exit because there was no sign of bubbles

at the start of this spiral. As the bubbles flowed back into the walnut, 

instead of forming a puff like those entering from the other thread,

they simply shrank down to nothing.

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