X rays

• X rays

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.

41:9.1The 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.

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.

77:2.5These mu­tant traits ap­pear­ing in the first Nod­ite gen­er­a­tion re­sulted from cer­tain changes which had been wrought in the con­fig­u­ra­tion and in the chem­i­cal con­stituents of the in­her­i­tance fac­tors of the An­donic germ plasm. These changes were caused by the pres­ence in the bod­ies of the staff mem­bers of the pow­er­ful life-main­te­nance cir­cuits of the Sa­ta­nia sys­tem. These life cir­cuits caused the chro­mo­somes of the spe­cial­ized Uran­tia pat­tern to re­or­ga­nize more af­ter the pat­terns of the stan­dard­ized Sa­ta­nia spe­cial­iza­tion of the or­dained Neb­a­don life man­i­fes­ta­tion. The tech­nique of this germ plasm meta­mor­pho­sis by the ac­tion of the sys­tem life cur­rents is not un­like those pro­ce­dures whereby Uran­tia sci­en­tists mod­ify the germ plasm of plants and an­i­mals by the use of X rays.

42:6.2Lo­cal or lin­ear grav­ity be­comes fully op­er­a­tive with the ap­pear­ance of the atomic or­ga­ni­za­tion of mat­ter. Preatomic mat­ter be­comes slightly grav­ity re­spon­sive when ac­ti­vated by X ray and other sim­i­lar en­er­gies, but no mea­sur­able lin­ear-grav­ity pull is ex­erted on free, un­at­tached, and un­charged elec­tronic-en­ergy par­ti­cles or on unas­so­ci­ated ul­ti­ma­tons.

41:9.4Sun sta­bil­ity is wholly de­pen­dent on the equi­lib­rium be­tween grav­ity-heat con­ten­tion—tremen­dous pres­sures counter­balanced by unimag­ined tem­per­a­tures. The in­te­rior gas elas­tic­ity of the suns up­holds the over­ly­ing lay­ers of var­ied ma­te­ri­als, and when grav­ity and heat are in equi­lib­rium, the weight of the outer ma­te­ri­als ex­actly equals the tem­per­a­ture pres­sure of the un­der­ly­ing and in­te­rior gases. In many of the younger stars con­tin­ued grav­ity con­den­sa­tion pro­duces ever-height­en­ing in­ter­nal tem­per­a­tures, and as in­ter­nal heat in­creases, the in­te­rior X-ray pres­sure of super­gas winds be­comes so great that, in con­nec­tion with the cen­trifu­gal mo­tion, a sun be­gins to throw its ex­te­rior lay­ers off into space, thus re­dress­ing the im­bal­ance be­tween grav­ity and heat.

42:5.86. The X-ray group. The next step in the slow­ing down of the elec­tron yields the var­i­ous forms of so­lar X rays to­gether with ar­ti­fi­cially gen­er­ated X rays. The elec­tronic charge cre­ates an elec­tric field; move­ment gives rise to an elec­tric cur­rent; the cur­rent pro­duces a mag­netic field. When an elec­tron is sud­denly stopped, the re­sul­tant elec­tro­mag­netic com­mo­tion pro­duces the X ray; the X ray is that dis­tur­bance. The so­lar X rays are iden­ti­cal with those which are me­chan­i­cally gen­er­ated for ex­plor­ing the in­te­rior of the hu­man body ex­cept that they are a tri­fle longer.

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.