Gravitas, Part I

  

This forthcoming group of essays is presented as an expansion of the questions raised by my observations in The Quantum State of Being.

All inner work is cumulative; and regardless of any level of insight, because of the accretive nature of being and understanding, new things are understood if the organism is functioning in anything approaching the right way.

When I wrote The Quantum State of Being certain things about the nature of Being and its relationship to structural elements of the cosmos were apparent to me; yet as a result of a wide range of recent experiences which I would characterize as molecular and chemical in their origins, but vivifying and intelligent in their results, some new observations about the nature of magnetism and gravity have come up, and they bear some discussion.

Magnetism and Gravity

There are two types of attractive forces that operate cosmologically; and we see their operation in spectacular ways at the level of planets and galaxies. These two forces are magnetism and gravity.

The one force, magnetism, is clearly mediated by electrical current; and the assumption is that gravity also functions this way, although conclusive evidence for it has never been demonstrated. The absence of that evidence — the ability to tie the force of gravity into the electrical systems of the universe — is one of the standing challenges in modern physics. Put in simple terms, no one really knows how gravity works. The assumption is that gravity is somehow, at its root, tied into the rest of all the cosmological systems of force, but no one knows how.

Yet the character of these two forces is essentially different; and so from the perspective of their origins, alone, they are quite different from one another.

Magnetism is polar; that is to say, it’s founded on the premise and actual, observable physical action of positive and negative charges that either attract or repel one another. It’s a lateral force; and it has an inherently dualistic nature. In this sense, conceptually, it consists of a set of opposites, two properties which each, of themselves, wholly exclude the other. The example at the level of atomic structure is that of matter and antimatter. We can’t take it to the level of quanta because there’s no such thing as quanta and anti-quanta. No such thing, that is, that we know of. The presumption is that somehow a quanta doesn’t, of itself, express this dualistic nature, although, again, that’s an assumption.

Gravity is very different, because there’s no known force that’s functionally opposed to gravity itself. Gravity draws things towards it by unseen methods that have never been explained. Yet gravity itself does not repel; there's no “opposite” to gravity, and the word ”antigravity” means nothing more than the sheer absence of gravity. Either it’s here, or it isn’t. This points towards a non-dualistic nature.

From the functional nature of gravity, we see that it’s not a horizontal or lateral force like magnetism; it’s a vertical force. A vertical force of ultimately unknown origin, that influences everything according to the levels of concentration of mass. It’s always attractive; it always draws more mass towards itself.

 Hurrah for using all three parts today. Be well.

Warmly,

Lee

Lee van Laer is a Senior Editor at Parabola Magazine.