- T.P. wrote:
- Let's forget about how philosophers's stone is made for a moment and let us think about how it operates.
If we want to transmute Lead into Gold then we are talking about fission but if we want to transmute Silver into Gold then we are talking about fusion. How can a Stone perform contrary operations?
Interesting, but why must we speak of fission and fusion when dealing with one matter of metal? Whether it is silver or lead and we wish to make either of these metals into gold, why do we assume that one gives and the other takes? In fission, do we lose material?
Should one gram of silver not give us one gram of gold by the stones operation? And likewise with lead, should one gram of lead not give us one gram of gold?
The stone would act in a way as a conduit of my WILL; for if I
thought to make such a transmutation, then gram for gram, it would be done.
The elements making up the metals would retain their quantity, however, their density would necessarily undergo a change.
Likewise, we might expect the volume of these metals to change as well.
So I have issue with the context of the orthodox words here used.
Why? Because Hermetic Philosophy teaches that all metals are one and the same in differing stages of maturation.
I don't see any contrary operations in the stone. Your perspective may be contrary, but the operation of the stone? Well, I'm not so certain of this.
These words Fission and Fusion puts one in a box imho. I prefer to think in terms of expansion and contraction. Like this we can dispel with the uncertainty of these modern words.
Allow me to expand on my thought process to illustrate;
I take a piece of string with a weight attached and I whirl it above my head in a circular orbit. The weight exhibits a centrifugal force outwards seeking to fly away. At the same time, a centrepital force is exerted at that end of the string attached to my finger.
Here we have our expansion and contraction existing in harmony and there is no augmentation or diminution of parts. Simplicity!
So the question would become, how does the operation of the stone affect this harmony or equilibrium in matter/metal, so as to effect a change?
- T.P. wrote:
- The easiest operation would be to transmute mercury into gold because all that is needed is to expell alpha particles from mercury. There are some amusing theories on how to accomplish this.
One way is to squeeze mercury between 2 repelling magnets and measure the expulsion of alpha particles out of mercury with a a geiger counter.
Yet another interesting notion! Must we first
"freeze" the mercury before we can squeeze it? And if we did, we'd have a piece of metal between two opposing magnetic poles.
What generally occurs in this instance? Do the field particles of the magnets not pass out into the frozen mercury? At that instance, is there not a displacement ,(contraction), of particles
within the mercury caused by the push of field particles from both ends now occupying space within the mercury that was previously filled? Would not the opposite reaction be that the displaced particles of the mercury, take up space in a generated field around the mercury?
This movement of field particles is what is picked up by the Geiger counter.
But field particles, whatever name you assign to them, form closed loops.
We see this with our iron fillings. And so I wouldn't expect to see any transmutation here. I could be wrong, but this is highly unlikely!