The Body Electric
By: Seeker
In the last post I talked about three pathways in the body, the blood flowing through veins, magnetism flowing through nerves and akasa flowing through ‘channels, subtle yet physical.’ Blood is obvious, but magnetism seems a strange one. But to understand maybe a quick review of some science might help.
In our world, we see the nervous system as being an electrical path through which sensory impulses pass as electrical charges. They eventually reach the brain & our brain interprets the messages as sight, sound, taste, smell or touch.
But electric and magnetic effects are hard to separate. Movement of a magnet produces electric effects and passing electricity through a wire will create a magnetic field. And although we make extensive use of both electrical and magnetic effects in our modern society, we don’t actually know what they are.
Electricity is defined as the movement of charge, usually electrons. But we don’t actually know what causes a particle to have charge. We know that there are apparently two kinds of charge, positive and negative but there’s nobody who can tell you what the difference is.
And it’s worse than that… the basic particles of charge are electrons (negative) and protons (positive) with a third neutral particle called a neutron. Seems fairly straightforward, right?
We have a standard model of particles that seems to be backed up by the mathematics and by (some) observations, but in reality, we don’t know for sure if we’re right. Science has had to come up with a bewildering array of particles besides the three mentioned, with exotic names – muons and leptons, and quarks of up, down, strange and charmed types, along with neutrinos and the elusive Higgs boson that CERN is hoping to find with the Large Hadron Collider.
But the stunner is, our best knowledge of things suggests that at base, none of these particles are actually there at all!
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