Energy—Mind and Matter

42:8.1While grav­ity is one of sev­eral fac­tors con­cerned in hold­ing to­gether a tiny atomic en­ergy sys­tem, there is also pres­ent in and among these ba­sic phys­i­cal units a pow­er­ful and un­known en­ergy, the se­cret of their ba­sic con­sti­tu­tion and ul­ti­mate be­hav­ior, a force which re­mains to be dis­cov­ered on Uran­tia. This uni­ver­sal in­flu­ence per­me­ates all the space em­braced within this tiny en­ergy or­ga­ni­za­tion.

42:8.2The in­ter­elec­tronic space of an atom is not empty. Through­out an atom this in­ter­elec­tronic space is ac­ti­vated by wave­like man­i­fes­ta­tions which are per­fectly syn­chro­nized with elec­tronic ve­loc­ity and ul­ti­ma­tonic rev­o­lu­tions. This force is not wholly dom­i­nated by your rec­og­nized laws of pos­i­tive and neg­a­tive at­trac­tion; its be­hav­ior is there­fore some­times un­pre­dictable. This un­named in­flu­ence seems to be a space-force re­ac­tion of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

42:8.3The charged pro­tons and the un­charged neu­trons of the nu­cleus of the atom are held to­gether by the re­cip­ro­cat­ing func­tion of the meso­tron, a par­ti­cle of mat­ter 180 times as heavy as the elec­tron. With­out this ar­range­ment the elec­tric charge car­ried by the pro­tons would be dis­rup­tive of the atomic nu­cleus.

42:8.4As atoms are con­sti­tuted, nei­ther elec­tric nor grav­i­ta­tional forces could hold the nu­cleus to­gether. The in­tegrity of the nu­cleus is main­tained by the re­cip­ro­cal co­her­ing func­tion of the meso­tron, which is able to hold charged and un­charged par­ti­cles to­gether be­cause of su­pe­rior force-mass power and by the fur­ther func­tion of caus­ing pro­tons and neu­trons con­stantly to change places. The meso­tron causes the elec­tric charge of the nu­clear par­ti­cles to be in­ces­santly tossed back and forth be­tween pro­tons and neu­trons. At one in­finites­i­mal part of a sec­ond a given nu­clear par­ti­cle is a charged pro­ton and the next an un­charged neu­tron. And these al­ter­na­tions of en­ergy sta­tus are so un­be­liev­ably rapid that the elec­tric charge is de­prived of all op­por­tu­nity to func­tion as a dis­rup­tive in­flu­ence. Thus does the meso­tron func­tion as an “en­ergy-car­rier” par­ti­cle which might­ily con­tributes to the nu­clear sta­bil­ity of the atom.

42:8.5The pres­ence and func­tion of the meso­tron also ex­plains an­other atomic rid­dle. When atoms per­form ra­dioac­tively, they emit far more en­ergy than would be ex­pected. This ex­cess of ra­di­a­tion is de­rived from the break­ing up of the meso­tron “en­ergy car­rier,” which thereby be­comes a mere elec­tron. The mesotronic dis­in­te­gra­tion is also ac­com­pa­nied by the emis­sion of cer­tain small un­charged par­ti­cles.

42:8.6The meso­tron ex­plains cer­tain co­he­sive prop­er­ties of the atomic nu­cleus, but it does not ac­count for the co­he­sion of pro­ton to pro­ton nor for the ad­he­sion of neu­tron to neu­tron. The para­dox­i­cal and pow­er­ful force of atomic co­he­sive in­tegrity is a form of en­ergy as yet undis­cov­ered on Uran­tia.

42:8.7These mesotrons are found abun­dantly in the space rays which so in­ces­santly im­pinge upon your planet.