The Second Spectrum
As today is the Solstice, and the subject of this post is a sop to all the woolly-minded new age non-thinkers and religious nuts everywhere, it's a good time to start writing it down. The basic hypothesis has been ticking around in my mind for a dozen years, but I've never committed it to paper whether real or virtual.
So, once upon a time, before Isaac Newton and Galvani took their parts upon the stage of the Renaissance, mankind's experience of the electromagnetic spectrum was limited. We could see (visible wavelengths) and we could feel the warmth of infrared from fires and sun upon us; we could detect static electric charge from fur and other fabrics, but that was all. The rest of the all-encompassing electromagnetic universe was hidden from us. In the few hundred years since then, we have detected and found how to use wavelengths from gamma-rays to radio.
Science explains nearly everything we experience. That's a "nearly". Many people have reported phenomena that are not explicable, however. Coincidental dreams, premonition, animal behaviour before earthquakes, synchronicity. I know that I have experienced my own share of events that are not explicable nor at all probable. So here's a hypothesis: there is a second, parallel spectrum of radiation which is transmitted and vaguely detectable by humans under certain circumstances. Think of feeling warmth from a distant fire as an analogy. It happens, we just cannot explain it at present, and we have not invented the instruments which could isolate and detect this vibration in the ether. That's why humans adopt a consistent posture of worship in most religions: we give ourselves the shape of radio aerial receivers as an unconscious effort to improve our ability to pick up the "divine". Conversely, transmitters of magic or healing in most cultures make pointing gestures to maximise their ability to radiate.
That's the hypothesis. How could it be proved or disproved without instruments? How could we design detectors or transmitters without the knowledge of what comprises this second spectrum?
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So, once upon a time, before Isaac Newton and Galvani took their parts upon the stage of the Renaissance, mankind's experience of the electromagnetic spectrum was limited. We could see (visible wavelengths) and we could feel the warmth of infrared from fires and sun upon us; we could detect static electric charge from fur and other fabrics, but that was all. The rest of the all-encompassing electromagnetic universe was hidden from us. In the few hundred years since then, we have detected and found how to use wavelengths from gamma-rays to radio.
Science explains nearly everything we experience. That's a "nearly". Many people have reported phenomena that are not explicable, however. Coincidental dreams, premonition, animal behaviour before earthquakes, synchronicity. I know that I have experienced my own share of events that are not explicable nor at all probable. So here's a hypothesis: there is a second, parallel spectrum of radiation which is transmitted and vaguely detectable by humans under certain circumstances. Think of feeling warmth from a distant fire as an analogy. It happens, we just cannot explain it at present, and we have not invented the instruments which could isolate and detect this vibration in the ether. That's why humans adopt a consistent posture of worship in most religions: we give ourselves the shape of radio aerial receivers as an unconscious effort to improve our ability to pick up the "divine". Conversely, transmitters of magic or healing in most cultures make pointing gestures to maximise their ability to radiate.
That's the hypothesis. How could it be proved or disproved without instruments? How could we design detectors or transmitters without the knowledge of what comprises this second spectrum?
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