space rays

• frequently commingled with highly energized particles

42:5.1In the super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton there are one hun­dred oc­taves of wave en­ergy. Of these one hun­dred groups of en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions, sixty-four are wholly or par­tially rec­og­nized on Uran­tia. The sun’s rays con­sti­tute four oc­taves in the super­uni­verse scale, the vis­i­ble rays em­brac­ing a sin­gle oc­tave, num­ber forty-six in this se­ries. The ul­tra­vi­o­let group comes next, while ten oc­taves up are the X rays, fol­lowed by the gamma rays of ra­dium. Thirty-two oc­taves above the vis­i­ble light of the sun are the outer-space en­ergy rays so fre­quently com­min­gled with their as­so­ci­ated highly en­er­gized minute par­ti­cles of mat­ter. Next down­ward from vis­i­ble sun­light ap­pear the in­frared rays, and thirty oc­taves be­low are the ra­dio trans­mis­sion group.

• consist of ultimatons or electrons

42:5.42. Ul­ti­ma­tonic rays. The as­sem­bly of en­ergy into the minute spheres of the ul­ti­ma­tons oc­ca­sions vi­bra­tions in the con­tent of space which are dis­cern­i­ble and mea­sur­able. And long be­fore physi­cists ever dis­cover the ul­ti­ma­ton, they will un­doubt­edly de­tect the phe­nom­ena of these rays as they shower in upon Uran­tia. These short and pow­er­ful rays rep­re­sent the ini­tial ac­tiv­ity of the ul­ti­ma­tons as they are slowed down to that point where they veer to­wards the elec­tronic or­ga­ni­za­tion of mat­ter. As the ul­ti­ma­tons ag­gre­gate into elec­trons, con­den­sa­tion oc­curs with a con­se­quent stor­age of en­ergy.

• short s.r. attendant upon atomic birth or dissolution

42:5.53. The short space rays. These are the short­est of all purely elec­tronic vi­bra­tions and rep­re­sent the preatomic stage of this form of mat­ter. These rays re­quire ex­traor­di­nar­ily high or low tem­per­a­tures for their pro­duc­tion. There are two sorts of these space rays: one at­ten­dant upon the birth of atoms and the other in­dica­tive of atomic dis­rup­tion. They em­anate in the largest quan­ti­ties from the dens­est plane of the super­uni­verse, the Milky Way, which is also the dens­est plane of the outer uni­verses.

• many mesotrons in

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

• short s.r. are dominant form of radiant energy

58:3.1Dur­ing the ear­lier times of uni­verse ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion the space re­gions are in­ter­spersed with vast hy­dro­gen clouds, just such as­tro­nomic dust clus­ters as now char­ac­ter­ize many re­gions through­out re­mote space. Much of the or­ga­nized mat­ter which the blaz­ing suns break down and dis­perse as ra­di­ant en­ergy was orig­i­nally built up in these early ap­pear­ing hy­dro­gen clouds of space. Un­der cer­tain un­usual con­di­tions atom dis­rup­tion also oc­curs at the nu­cleus of the larger hy­dro­gen masses. And all of these phe­nom­ena of atom build­ing and atom dis­so­lu­tion, as in the highly heated neb­u­lae, are at­tended by the emer­gence of flood tides of short space rays of ra­di­ant en­ergy. Ac­com­pa­ny­ing these di­verse ra­di­a­tions is a form of space-en­ergy un­known on Uran­tia.

58:3.2This short-ray en­ergy charge of uni­verse space is four hun­dred times greater than all other forms of ra­di­ant en­ergy ex­ist­ing in the or­ga­nized space do­mains. The out­put of short space rays, whether com­ing from the blaz­ing neb­u­lae, tense elec­tric fields, outer space, or the vast hy­dro­gen dust clouds, is mod­i­fied qual­i­ta­tively and quan­ti­ta­tively by fluc­tu­a­tions of, and sud­den ten­sion changes in, tem­per­a­ture, grav­ity, and elec­tronic pres­sures.

58:3.3These even­tu­al­i­ties in the ori­gin of the space rays are de­ter­mined by many cos­mic oc­cur­rences as well as by the or­bits of cir­cu­lat­ing mat­ter, which vary from mod­i­fied cir­cles to ex­treme el­lipses. Phys­i­cal con­di­tions may also be greatly al­tered be­cause the elec­tron spin is some­times in the op­po­site di­rec­tion from that of the grosser mat­ter be­hav­ior, even in the same phys­i­cal zone.

• implanted life fully resistant to short

58:3.4The vast hy­dro­gen clouds are ver­i­ta­ble cos­mic chem­i­cal lab­o­ra­to­ries, har­bor­ing all phases of evolv­ing en­ergy and meta­mor­phos­ing mat­ter. Great en­ergy ac­tions also oc­cur in the marginal gases of the great bi­nary stars which so fre­quently over­lap and hence ex­ten­sively com­min­gle. But none of these tremen­dous and far-flung en­ergy ac­tiv­i­ties of space ex­erts the least in­flu­ence upon the phe­nom­ena of or­ga­nized life—the germ plasm of liv­ing things and be­ings. These en­ergy con­di­tions of space are ger­mane to the es­sen­tial en­vi­ron­ment of life es­tab­lish­ment, but they are not ef­fec­tive in the sub­se­quent mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the in­her­i­tance fac­tors of the germ plasm as are some of the longer rays of ra­di­ant en­ergy. The im­planted life of the Life Car­ri­ers is fully re­sis­tant to all of this amaz­ing flood of the short space rays of uni­verse en­ergy.