solar radiation

41:5.1That the suns of space are not very dense is proved by the steady streams of es­cap­ing light-en­er­gies. Too great a den­sity would re­tain light by opac­ity un­til the light-en­ergy pres­sure reached the ex­plo­sion point. There is a tremen­dous light or gas pres­sure within a sun to cause it to shoot forth such a stream of en­ergy as to pen­e­trate space for mil­lions upon mil­lions of miles to en­er­gize, light, and heat the dis­tant plan­ets. Fif­teen feet of sur­face of the den­sity of Uran­tia would ef­fec­tu­ally pre­vent the es­cape of all X rays and light-en­er­gies from a sun un­til the ris­ing in­ter­nal pres­sure of ac­cu­mu­lat­ing en­er­gies re­sult­ing from atomic dis­mem­ber­ment over­came grav­ity with a tremen­dous out­ward ex­plo­sion.

41:5.2Light, in the pres­ence of the propul­sive gases, is highly ex­plo­sive when con­fined at high tem­per­a­tures by opaque re­tain­ing walls. Light is real. As you value en­ergy and power on your world, sun­light would be eco­nom­i­cal at a mil­lion dol­lars a pound.

41:5.3The in­te­rior of your sun is a vast X-ray gen­er­a­tor. The suns are sup­ported from within by the in­ces­sant bom­bard­ment of these mighty em­a­na­tions.

41:5.4It re­quires more than one-half mil­lion years for an X-ray-stim­u­lated elec­tron to work its way from the very cen­ter of an av­er­age sun up to the so­lar sur­face, whence it starts out on its space ad­ven­ture, maybe to warm an in­hab­ited planet, to be cap­tured by a me­teor, to par­tic­i­pate in the birth of an atom, to be at­tracted by a highly charged dark is­land of space, or to find its space flight ter­mi­nated by a fi­nal plunge into the sur­face of a sun sim­i­lar to the one of its ori­gin.

41:5.5The X rays of a sun’s in­te­rior charge the highly heated and ag­i­tated elec­trons with suf­fi­cient en­ergy to carry them out through space, past the hosts of de­tain­ing in­flu­ences of in­ter­ven­ing mat­ter and, in spite of di­ver­gent grav­ity at­trac­tions, on to the dis­tant spheres of the re­mote sys­tems. The great en­ergy of ve­loc­ity re­quired to es­cape the grav­ity clutch of a sun is suf­fi­cient to in­sure that the sun­beam will travel on with un­abated ve­loc­ity un­til it en­coun­ters con­sid­er­able masses of mat­ter; where­upon it is quickly trans­formed into heat with the lib­er­a­tion of other en­er­gies.

41:5.6En­ergy, whether as light or in other forms, in its flight through space moves straight for­ward. The ac­tual par­ti­cles of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence tra­verse space like a fusil­lade. They go in a straight and un­bro­ken line or pro­ces­sion ex­cept as they are acted on by su­pe­rior forces, and ex­cept as they ever obey the lin­ear-grav­ity pull in­her­ent in ma­te­rial mass and the cir­cu­lar-grav­ity pres­ence of the Isle of Par­a­dise.

41:5.7So­lar en­ergy may seem to be pro­pelled in waves, but that is due to the ac­tion of co­ex­is­tent and di­verse in­flu­ences. A given form of or­ga­nized en­ergy does not pro­ceed in waves but in di­rect lines. The pres­ence of a sec­ond or a third form of force-en­ergy may cause the stream un­der ob­ser­va­tion to ap­pear to travel in wavy for­ma­tion, just as, in a blind­ing rain­storm ac­com­pa­nied by a heavy wind, the wa­ter some­times ap­pears to fall in sheets or to de­scend in waves. The rain­drops are com­ing down in a di­rect line of un­bro­ken pro­ces­sion, but the ac­tion of the wind is such as to give the vis­i­ble ap­pear­ance of sheets of wa­ter and waves of rain­drops.

41:5.8The ac­tion of cer­tain sec­ondary and other undis­cov­ered en­er­gies pres­ent in the space re­gions of your lo­cal uni­verse is such that so­lar-light em­a­na­tions ap­pear to ex­e­cute cer­tain wavy phe­nom­ena as well as to be chopped up into in­finites­i­mal por­tions of def­i­nite length and weight. And, prac­ti­cally con­sid­ered, that is ex­actly what hap­pens. You can hardly hope to ar­rive at a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing of the be­hav­ior of light un­til such a time as you ac­quire a clearer con­cept of the in­ter­ac­tion and in­ter­re­la­tion­ship of the var­i­ous space-forces and so­lar en­er­gies op­er­at­ing in the space re­gions of Neb­a­don. Your pres­ent con­fu­sion is also due to your in­com­plete grasp of this prob­lem as it in­volves the in­teras­so­ci­ated ac­tiv­i­ties of the per­sonal and non­per­sonal con­trol of the mas­ter uni­verse—the pres­ences, the per­for­mances, and the co-or­di­na­tion of the Con­joint Ac­tor and the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.