heat

15:8.10The super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton is ap­par­ently now run­ning down; the outer uni­verses seem to be wind­ing up for un­par­al­leled fu­ture ac­tiv­i­ties; the cen­tral Ha­vona uni­verse is eter­nally sta­bi­lized. Grav­ity and ab­sence of heat (cold) or­ga­nize and hold mat­ter to­gether; heat and anti­grav­ity dis­rupt mat­ter and dis­si­pate en­ergy. The liv­ing power di­rec­tors and force or­ga­niz­ers are the se­cret of the spe­cial con­trol and in­tel­li­gent di­rec­tion of the end­less meta­mor­phoses of uni­verse mak­ing, un­mak­ing, and re­mak­ing. Neb­u­lae may dis­perse, suns burn out, sys­tems van­ish, and plan­ets per­ish, but the uni­verses do not run down.

42:4.7Tem­per­a­ture—heat and cold—is sec­ondary only to grav­ity in the realms of en­ergy and mat­ter evo­lu­tion. Ul­ti­ma­tons are humbly obe­di­ent to tem­per­a­ture ex­tremes. Low tem­per­a­tures fa­vor cer­tain forms of elec­tronic con­struc­tion and atomic as­sem­bly, while high tem­per­a­tures fa­cil­i­tate all sorts of atomic breakup and ma­te­rial dis­in­te­gra­tion.

41:7.1The in­ter­nal tem­per­a­ture of many of the suns, even your own, is much higher than is com­monly be­lieved. In the in­te­rior of a sun prac­ti­cally no whole atoms ex­ist; they are all more or less shat­tered by the in­ten­sive X-ray bom­bard­ment which is in­dige­nous to such high tem­per­a­tures. Re­gard­less of what ma­te­rial el­e­ments may ap­pear in the outer lay­ers of a sun, those in the in­te­rior are ren­dered very sim­i­lar by the dis­so­cia­tive ac­tion of the dis­rup­tive X rays. X ray is the great lev­eler of atomic ex­is­tence.

41:7.2The sur­face tem­per­a­ture of your sun is al­most 6,000 de­grees, but it rapidly in­creases as the in­te­rior is pen­e­trated un­til it at­tains the un­be­liev­able height of about 35,000,000 de­grees in the cen­tral re­gions. (All of these tem­per­a­tures re­fer to your Fahren­heit scale.)

41:7.3All of these phe­nom­ena are in­dica­tive of enor­mous en­ergy ex­pen­di­ture, and the sources of so­lar en­ergy, named in the or­der of their im­por­tance, are:

41:7.41. An­ni­hi­la­tion of atoms and, even­tu­ally, of elec­trons.

41:7.52. Trans­mu­ta­tion of el­e­ments, in­clud­ing the ra­dioac­tive group of en­er­gies thus lib­er­ated.

41:7.63. The ac­cu­mu­la­tion and trans­mis­sion of cer­tain uni­ver­sal space-en­er­gies.

41:7.74. Space mat­ter and me­te­ors which are in­ces­santly div­ing into the blaz­ing suns.

41:7.85. So­lar con­trac­tion; the cool­ing and con­se­quent con­trac­tion of a sun yields en­ergy and heat some­times greater than that sup­plied by space mat­ter.

41:7.96. Grav­ity ac­tion at high tem­per­a­tures trans­forms cer­tain cir­cuitized power into ra­dia­tive en­er­gies.

41:7.107. Re­cap­tive light and other mat­ter which are drawn back into the sun af­ter hav­ing left it, to­gether with other en­er­gies hav­ing ex­tra­so­lar ori­gin.

41:7.11There ex­ists a reg­u­lat­ing blan­ket of hot gases (some­times mil­lions of de­grees in tem­per­a­ture) which en­velops the suns, and which acts to sta­bi­lize heat loss and oth­er­wise pre­vent haz­ardous fluc­tu­a­tions of heat dis­si­pa­tion. Dur­ing the ac­tive life of a sun the in­ter­nal tem­per­a­ture of 35,000,000 de­grees re­mains about the same quite re­gard­less of the pro­gres­sive fall of the ex­ter­nal tem­per­a­ture.

41:7.12You might try to vi­su­al­ize 35,000,000 de­grees of heat, in as­so­ci­a­tion with cer­tain grav­ity pres­sures, as the elec­tronic boil­ing point. Un­der such pres­sure and at such tem­per­a­ture all atoms are de­graded and bro­ken up into their elec­tronic and other an­ces­tral com­po­nents; even the elec­trons and other as­so­ci­a­tions of ul­ti­ma­tons may be bro­ken up, but the suns are not able to de­grade the ul­ti­ma­tons.

41:7.13These so­lar tem­per­a­tures op­er­ate to enor­mously speed up the ul­ti­ma­tons and the elec­trons, at least such of the lat­ter as con­tinue to main­tain their ex­is­tence un­der these con­di­tions. You will re­al­ize what high tem­per­a­ture means by way of the ac­cel­er­a­tion of ul­ti­ma­tonic and elec­tronic ac­tiv­i­ties when you pause to con­sider that one drop of or­di­nary wa­ter con­tains over one bil­lion tril­lions of atoms. This is the en­ergy of more than one hun­dred horse­power ex­erted con­tin­u­ously for two years. The to­tal heat now given out by the so­lar sys­tem sun each sec­ond is suf­fi­cient to boil all the wa­ter in all the oceans on Uran­tia in just one sec­ond of time.

41:9.1The larger suns main­tain such a grav­ity con­trol over their elec­trons that light es­capes only with the aid of the pow­er­ful X rays. These helper rays pen­e­trate all space and are con­cerned in the main­te­nance of the ba­sic ul­ti­ma­tonic as­so­ci­a­tions of en­ergy. The great en­ergy losses in the early days of a sun, sub­se­quent to its at­tain­ment of max­i­mum tem­per­a­ture—up­wards of 35,000,000 de­grees—are not so much due to light es­cape as to ul­ti­ma­tonic leak­age. These ul­ti­ma­ton en­er­gies es­cape out into space, to en­gage in the ad­ven­ture of elec­tronic as­so­ci­a­tion and en­ergy ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion, as a ver­i­ta­ble en­ergy blast dur­ing ado­les­cent so­lar times.

42:4.5Through­out all space, cold and other in­flu­ences are at work cre­atively or­ga­niz­ing ul­ti­ma­tons into elec­trons. Heat is the mea­sure­ment of elec­tronic ac­tiv­ity, while cold merely sig­ni­fies ab­sence of heat—com­par­a­tive en­ergy rest—the sta­tus of the uni­ver­sal force-charge of space pro­vided nei­ther emer­gent en­ergy nor or­ga­nized mat­ter were pres­ent and re­spond­ing to grav­ity.

42:4.8When sub­jected to the heat and pres­sure of cer­tain in­ter­nal so­lar states, all but the most prim­i­tive as­so­ci­a­tions of mat­ter may be bro­ken up. Heat can thus largely over­come grav­ity sta­bil­ity. But no known so­lar heat or pres­sure can con­vert ul­ti­ma­tons back into puis­sant en­ergy.

90:4.6Since wa­ter was a po­tent fe­tish, it was uti­lized in the treat­ment of many ail­ments. For long it was be­lieved that the spirit caus­ing the sick­ness could be elim­i­nated by sweat­ing. Va­por baths were highly re­garded; nat­u­ral hot springs soon blos­somed as prim­i­tive health re­sorts. Early man dis­cov­ered that heat would re­lieve pain; he used sun­light, fresh an­i­mal or­gans, hot clay, and hot stones, and many of these meth­ods are still em­ployed. Rhythm was prac­ticed in an ef­fort to in­flu­ence the spir­its; the tom-toms were uni­ver­sal.

42:4.1Light, heat, elec­tric­ity, mag­netism, chem­ism, en­ergy, and mat­ter are—in ori­gin, na­ture, and des­tiny—one and the same thing, to­gether with other ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties as yet undis­cov­ered on Uran­tia.

42:4.2We do not fully com­pre­hend the al­most end­less changes to which phys­i­cal en­ergy may be sub­ject. In one uni­verse it ap­pears as light, in an­other as light plus heat, in an­other as forms of en­ergy un­known on Uran­tia; in un­told mil­lions of years it may reap­pear as some form of rest­less, surg­ing elec­tri­cal en­ergy or mag­netic power; and still later on it may again ap­pear in a sub­se­quent uni­verse as some form of vari­able mat­ter go­ing through a se­ries of meta­mor­phoses, to be fol­lowed by its out­ward phys­i­cal dis­ap­pear­ance in some great cat­a­clysm of the realms. And then, af­ter count­less ages and al­most end­less wan­der­ing through num­ber­less uni­verses, again may this same en­ergy re-emerge and many times change its form and po­ten­tial; and so do these trans­for­ma­tions con­tinue through suc­ces­sive ages and through­out count­less realms. Thus mat­ter sweeps on, un­der­go­ing the trans­mu­ta­tions of time but swing­ing ever true to the cir­cle of eter­nity; even if long pre­vented from re­turn­ing to its source, it is ever re­spon­sive thereto, and it ever pro­ceeds in the path or­dained by the In­fi­nite Per­son­al­ity who sent it forth.

15:6.8The Suns. These are the stars of space in all their var­i­ous stages of ex­is­tence. Some are soli­tary evolv­ing space sys­tems; oth­ers are dou­ble stars, con­tract­ing or dis­ap­pear­ing plan­e­tary sys­tems. The stars of space ex­ist in no less than a thou­sand dif­fer­ent states and stages. You are fa­mil­iar with suns that emit light ac­com­pa­nied by heat; but there are also suns which shine with­out heat.