Max,
I realize that, the other day, my definition for soft particles was rough. I
think that I have paid more attention to the process rather than the exact
nature of the particle in the sense that the aggragate nature of the
particle escaped me.
Hard particles are in the gamma frequency and above. Soft particles
correspond to the frequencies below, but they are defined as aggragates of
photons in the frequencies below.
They capture hard particles Pacman style, as Frode likes to say. cater says:
" Two particles differring greatly in the frequency range of photons of
which they are comprised have little tendency to repel or attract each
other. Therefore, they tend to interpenetrate."
This process accounts for the penetration of hard particles through matter:
" The capturing process tends to nullify the electrostatic field effect of
the captured partilces. Electrostatic forces are the result of a disruption
of the random movements of ether particles. The combination described above
partially restores this randomness in the vicinity of the particles. ..."
The hard particles, with their electrostatic forces ameliorated, pass
through the Earth's shell encased in photon aggragates, i.e., soft
particles. The more unstable of these soft particles break apart due to
friction with other particles and release the hard particles. This provides
a source of heat and power deep within; for example, Cater attributes
earthquakes to this basic process.
When the soft particles break up deep within, at varying depths, they break
up into their constituent light bands. The deeper one goes, the more they
have broken up, the brighter it gets. This graded brightening is well
documented in Etidorhpa:
" CHAPTER XV.
A ZONE OF LIGHT DEEP WITHIN THE EARTH
" Oh! for one glimpse of light, a ray of sunshine!"
In reply to this my mental ejaculation, my guide said: " Can not you
perceive that the darkness is becoming less intense ?"
" No," I answered, " I can not; night is absolute."
" Are you sure?" lie asked. " Cover your eyes with your hand, then uncover
and open them." I did so and fancied that by contrast a faint gray line was
apparent.
" This must be imagination."
" No; we now approach a zone of earth light; let us hasten on."
" A zone of light deep in the earth! Incomprehensible! Incredible!" I
muttered, and yet as we went onward and time passed the darkness was less
intense. The barely perceptible hue became gray and somber, and then of a
pearly translucence, and although I could not distillgttish the outline of
objects, yet I unquestionably perceived light.
" I am amazed! What can be the cause of this phenomenon ? What is the nature
of this mysterious halo that surrounds us?" I held my open hand before my
eyes, and perceived the darkness of my spread fingers.
" It is light, it is light," I shouted; " it is really light!" And from near
and from far the echoes of that subterranean cavern answered back joyfully,
" It is light, it is light!"
I wept in joy, and threw my arms about my guide, forgetting in the ecstasy
his clammy cuticle, and danced in hysterical glee and alternately laughed
and cried. How vividly I realized then that the imprisoned miner would give
a world of gold, his former god, for a ray of light.
" Compose yourself; this emotional exhibition is all evidence of weakness;
an investigator should neither become depressed over a reverse, nor unduly
enthusiastic over a fortunate discovery."
But we approach the earth's surface ? Soon I will be back in the sunshine
again."
" Upon the contrary, we have been continually descending into the earth, and
we are now ten miles or more beneath the level of the ocean."
I shrank back, hesitated, and in despondency gazed at his hazy outline,
then, as if palsied, sank upon the stony floor; but as I saw the light
before me, I leaped up and shouted:
" What you say is not true; we approach daylight, I can see your form."
" Listen to me," he said. " Can not you understand that I have led you
continually down a steep descent, and that for hours there has been no step
upward? With but little exertion you have walked this distance without
becoming wearied, and you could not, without great fatigue, have ascended
for so long a period. You are entering a zone of inner earth light; we are
in the surface, the upper edge of it. Let us hasten on, for when this cavern
darkness is at an end- and I will say we have nearly passed that limit- your
courage will return, and then we will rest."
" You surely do not speak the truth; science and philosophy, and I am
somewhat versed in both, have never told me of such a light."
" Can philosophers more than speculate about that which they have not
experienced if they have no data from which to calculate? Name the student
in science who has reached this depth in earth, or has seen a man to tell
him of these facts?"
" I can not."
" Then why should yon have expected any of them to describe our
surroundings? Misguided men will torture science by refuting facts with
theories; but a fact is no less a fact when science opposes."
I recognized tile force of his arguments, and cordially grasped his hand in
indication of submission. We continued our journey, and rapidly traveled
downward and onward. The light gradually increased in intensity, until at
length the cavern near about us seemed to be as bright as diffused daylight
could leave made it. There was apparently no central point of radiation; the
light was such as to pervade and exist in tile surrounding space, somewhat
as the vapor of phosphorus spreads a self-luminous haze throughout the
bubble into which it is blown. The visual agent surrounding us had a
permanent, self-existing luminosity, and was a pervading, bright,
unreachable essence that, without an obvious origin, diffused itself equally
in all directions. It reminded me of the form of light that in previous
years I had seen described as epipolic dispersion, and as I refer to the
matter I am of the opinion that man will yet find that the same cause
produces both phenomena. I was informed now by the sense of sight, that we
were in a cavern room of considerable size. The apartment presented somewhat
the appearance of the usual underground caverns that I had seen pictured in
books, and yet was different. Stalactites, stalagmites, saline
incrustations,
occurring occasionally reminded me of travelers' stories, but these objects
were not so abundant as might be supposed. Such accretions or deposits of
saline substances as I noticed were also disappointing, in that, instead of
having a dazzling brilliancy, like frosted snow crystals, they were of a
uniform gray or brown hue. Indeed, my former imaginative mental creations
regarding underground caverns were dispelled in this somber stone temple,
for even the floor and tile fragments of stone that, in considerable
quantities, strewed the floor, were of the usual rock formations of upper
earth. The glittering crystals of snowy white or rain bow tints ( fairy
caverns ) pictured by travelers, and described as inexpressibly grand and
beautiful in other cavern labyrinths, were wanting here, and I saw only
occasional small clusters of quartz crystals that were other than of a dull
gray color. Finally; after hours or perhaps days of travel, interspersed
with restings, conversations, and arguments, amid which I could form no idea
of the flight of time, my companion seated himself on a natural bench of
stone, and directed me to rest likewise. He broke the silence, and spoke as
follows:"
...
CHAPTER XVI
" The child ignorant of letters wonders at the resources of those who can
spell and read, and, in like manner, many obscure natural phenomena are
marvelous to man only because of his ignorance. You do not comprehend the
fact that sunlight is simply a matter-bred expression, an outburst of
interrupted energy, and that the modification this energy undergoes makes it
visible or sensible to man. What, think you, becomes of the flood of light
energy that unceasingly flows from the sun? For ages, for an eternity, it
has bathed this earth and seemingly streamed into space, and space it would
seem must have long since have been filled with it, if, as men believe,
space contains energy of any description. Man may say the earth casts the
amount [ of light ] intercepted by it back into space, and yet does not your
science teach that the great bulk of the earth is an absorber, and a poor
radiator of light and heat? What think you, I repeat, becomes of the torrent
of light and heat and other forces that radiate from the sun, the flood that
strikes the earth? It disappears, and, in the economy of nature, is not
replaced by any known force or ally known motion of matter. Think you that
earth substance really presents an obstacle to the passage of the sun's
energy? Is it not probable that most of this light producing essence, as a
subtle fluid, passes through the surface of the earth and into its interior,
as light does through space, and returns thence to the sun again, in a
condition not discernible by man?" He grasped my arm and squeezed it as
though to emphasize the words to follow. "You have used the term sunshine
freely; tell me what is sunshine? Ah! you do not reply; well, what evidence
have you to show that sunshine ( heat and light ) is not earth-bred, a
condition that exists locally only, the result of contact between matter and
some unknown force expression? What reason have you for accepting that, to
other forms unknown and yet transparent to this energy, your sunshine may
not be as intangible as the ether of space is to man? What reason have you
to believe that a force torrent is not circulating to and from the sun and
earth, inappreciable to man, excepting the mere trace of this force which,
modified by contact action with matter appears as heat, light, and other
force expressions? How can I, if this is true, in consideration of your
ignorance, enter into details explanatory of the action that takes place
between matter and a portion of this force, whereby in the earth, first at
the surface, darkness is produced, and then deeper down an earth light that
man can perceive by the sense of sight, as you now realize? I will only say
that this luminous appearance about us is produced by a natural law, whereby
the flood of energy, invisible to man, a something clothed now under the
name of darkness, after streaming into the crust substance of the earth, is
at this depth, revivified, and then is made apparent to mortal
eye, to be modified again as it emerges from the opposite earth crust, but
not annihilated. For my vision, however, this central light is not a
necessity; my physical and mental development is such that the energy of
darkness is communicable; I can respond to its touches on my nerves, and
hence I can guide you in this dark cavern. I am all eye."
" Ah!" I exclaimed, " that reminds me of a remark made by my former guide
who, referring to the instinct of animals, spoke of that as a natural power
undeveloped in man. Is it true that by mental cultivation a new sense can be
evolved whereby darkness may become as light ?"
" Yes; that which you call light is a form of sensible energy to which the
faculties of animals who live on the surface of the earth have become
adapt�d, through their organs of sight. The sun's energy is modified when it
strikes the surface of the earth; part is reflected, but most of it passes
onward into the earth's substance, in an altered or disturbed condition."
This last sentence caps the explanation which Cater gives about soft
particles passing through the shell and breaking up into visible light
further down. I've been saying that Cater's book is the natural commentary
to Etidorhpa. Etidorhpa smacks of a fairy tale unless you read Cater's
explanation for the phenomena described. Neither Pellucidar nor Journey to
the Center of the Earth correspond like that.
About the Sun and the Moon and their respective gravitational forces. It
seems that there is some of what cater calls reasoning in a circle. It is
caused by a false basis given by the Cavendish experiment. If you mistakenly
correspond a given mass to the gravitational pull of the Earth, then measure
the gravitational pull of the Sun, you then correspond a mass to the Sun,
right? So of course the Sun's mass is going to correspond to the gravity
ascribed to it. The Cavendish experiment is the basis for everything. If
somebody pulls the carpet ...
Keep in mind that a tremendous mass is ascribed to the sun and that " Their
[ the Sun and the Moon ] apparent diameters are inversely proportional to
the distance; therefore, their apparent surface areas also vary inversely as
the square of the distance Since the moon is a greater factor in producing
tides, the conclusion that the Moon has a greater surface gravity than the
Sun is inescapable! To the orthodox mind this produces insurmountable
paradoxes. The time has come for these to be resolved. This can only be
accomplished by probing deeper into basic causes."
The Sun may be further away than the Moon, but its mass is supposed to be
tremendous. Since their apparent diameters are the same, the Moon should not
beat the pants off the Sun when it comes to gravitational effect on the
tides. Their effect should be similar. This is why Cater says " the
conclusion that the Moon has a greater surface gravity than the Sun is
inescapable!" Of course, if you are going to allow the cavendish experiment
to establish an artificial mass for the sun, you are off on the wrong foot
to begin with.
I don't want to really get preachy with you, but if you want to see how
Cater's soft particle physics works, then I have to give you some feedback
as best as I can.
Well, that's all for now. It is getting late here!
later,
Dharma/Dean