The question as a side-subject just came up in the thread here, "The Science of Mind". As a quick reply, some esotericists developed since the late 1800s a means of viewing sub-atomic structures by a form of microscopic clairvoyance mentioned over 1,000 years ago by Patanjali in India. Now called "Occult Chemistry", this meeting ground between clairvoyance and physics is getting increased attention. Here's what, about a century ago, Theosophists Leadbeater and Besant said about electricity. Just a few snippets from their book (the essential illustrations don't come out here, but they're in the link):
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From http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/oc/chaptr01.htm
THE ULTIMATE PHYSICAL ATOM OR ANU
As we have seen, a chemical atom may be dissociated into less complicated bodies; these, again, into still less complicated; these, again, into yet still less complicated. After the third dissociation but one more is possible; the fourth dissociation gives the ultimate physical atom on the atomic sub-plane, the Anu. This may vanish from the plane. but it can undergo no further dissociation on it. In this ultimate state of physical matter two types of units, or Anu, have been observed; they are alike in everything save the direction of their whorls and of the force which pours through them. In the one case force pours in from the "outside," from fourth-dimensional space, the Astral plane, and passing through the Anu, pours into the physical world. In the second, it pours in from the physical world, and out through the Anu into the "outside" again, i.e., vanishes from the physical world. The one is like a spring, from which water bubbles out; the other is like a hole, into which water disappears. We call the Anu from which force comes out positive or male; those through which it disappears, negative or female. All Anu, so far observed are from one or other of these two forms. Fig. 3.
FIG. 3. THE ANU
It will be seen that the Anu is a sphere, slightly flattened, and there is a depression at the point where the force flows in, causing a heart-like form. Each is surrounded by a field.
The Anu can scarcely be said to be a "thing," though it is the material out of which all things physical are composed. It is formed by the flow of the life-force and vanishes with its ebb. The life-force is known to Theosophists as Fohat, the force of which all the physical plane forces are differentiations. When this force arises in "space," that is when Fohat "digs holes in space,"--the apparent void which must be filled with substance of some kind, of inconceivable tenuity--Anu appear; if this be artificially stopped for a single Anu, the Anu disappears: there is nothing left. Presumably, were
that flow checked but for an instant, the whole physical world would vanish as a cloud melts away in the empyrean.
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An electric current brought to bear upon the Anu checks their proper motions, i.e., renders them slower; the Anu exposed to it arrange themselves in parallel lines, and in each line the heart-shaped depression receives the flow, which passes out through the apex into the depression of the next, and so on. The Anu always set themselves to the current. Fig. 4. In all the diagrams the heart-shaped body, exaggerated to show the depression caused by the inflow and the point caused by the outflow, is a single Anu.
FIG 4
The action of electricity opens up ground of large extent, and cannot be dealt with here. Does it act on the Anu themselves, or on molecules, or sometimes on one and sometimes on the other? In soft iron, for instance, are the internal arrangements of the chemical atom forcibly distorted, and do they elastically return to their original relations when released? In steel is the distortion permanent?
It will be understood from the foregoing, that the Anu cannot be said to have a wall of its own, unless these whorls of force can be so designated; its "wall" is the pressed back "space." As said in 1895, of the chemical atom, the force "clears itself a space, pressing back the undifferentiated matter of the plane, and making to itself a whirling wall of this matter." The wall belongs to space, not to the atom.
I'm sure I've read this before somewhere. I'll print it off and have a read in bed.
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You'll have read about Occult Chemistry from me. 🙂 I posted about three times on it when Leo was Science Mod back in the 1800s. 🙂
In the 1970s, in a book and articles, scientist and mathematician Stephen Phillips proved that what these clairvoyants call "anu" or anu's correspond exactly with the modern notion of quarks. In other words they are quarks and were seen from the 1800s on.
Phillips has a website if you look up his name along with occult chemistry.
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I'll look that up, but I'll need a lot of convincing... 😉
P.S. I've put the images into your post to make it easier for people to understand.
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Thanks for putting in the images, Giles.
Yes, of course it's going to take a lot of convincing by for anybody. But it's a quiet, slow revolution that quarks were known through clairvoyance in the 1800s (and in India before that, one presumes, since the method comes from there). They simply had a different name, of course.
One website for references on this subject, but most not online alas, is:
[DLMURL] http://www.tphta.ws/TPH_OCPG.HTM [/DLMURL]
The really key book was from the 70s or early 80s, which is Stephen M. Phillips' "Extra-Sensory Perception of Quarks" (need to buy it second-hand), since Phillips was the scientist who IMHO proved that the clairvoyants' anu are one and the same thing as quarks - because he realised that every single element, without exception, contains exactly the same anu in number and type as we find in the physics of quarks. To be precise, the clairvoyants were seeing "chiral colour quarks" - that is, three different types of quark (colour) and two different directions of spin each type can have. But the number are simply identical to quark theory for every single element.
The statisitcal chances of that happening randomly are billions to one. So whatever the explanation, it's not random or a coincidence. But Occult Chemistry predates quark theory by a few decades! Really, it's up to physicists to answer that one, not vice-versa.
What's also so valuable about it is that quark theory is stil pretty vague: Occult Chemistry is precise and highly detailed. Everything physics finds out about quarks has already been said in the late 1800s by clairvoyants.
Oh, and as the icing on the cake, anu are held together by, and indeed are composed of - strings. The late 1800s had string theory too, but apparently by direct observation. (Anyone would need to read up on the subject to confirm all this.)
Here's a more available book:
http://www.questbooks.net/author.cfm?authornum=56
Phillips has an interesting homepage BTW, but a quick look has not helped me to track it down.
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