Nuclear Force

2009-7-15 04:10:00

Interesting story Duane about how you were pushed out of the Theosophical Society. Unfortunately, it is not surprising. It is the nature of all organizations to crystallize. When this happens new truth is seen as a weapon that will shatter the whole and must be stopped at all costs.

I had a similar experience with the LDS [Mormon] church. They threw me out when they discovered my beliefs were not in harmony with the authorities. Part of the reason they were not in harmony was that I was a student of the Alice A. Bailey writings at the time. Even though I did not teach them to the church they did influence my beliefs, and my beliefs were what got me in trouble.

LWK writes:

"As we know negatively charged particles are attracted to positively charged particles, and vice versa. The electron with a negative charge is held in orbit around the nucleus of an atom due to its attraction to the positively charged proton.

"However we also know that like charges strongly repel each other. So what keeps the nucleus of an atom with many protons from simply blowing apart due to the very powerful repulsive forces between positively charged protons? It is the strong nuclear force which at very short distances has sufficient force to hold the protons together against their naturally repulsive forces.

"The strong nuclear force is very powerful, but only at very short distances. Unless the protons are very close together the powerful electrical repulsive forces will win out.

"So maybe love is like this strong nuclear force? When humans can become close enough this powerful force works. However if we get just a little bit apart, if we can't get close enough to sense the soul of the other, the highly repulsive forces of the personality strives to keeps us apart."

JJ:

This is a very good observation Larry and I sense that a lot of truth can be revealed here through the Law of Correspondences. I remember playing with various magnets before. If you take two magnets the opposing poles attract and the similar poles repel. But if you force the similar poles together the repulsion ceases and they do stick together but with weaker force than the opposing poles. I understand that the neutrons help diminish the repulsion of the protons as well as the interchange of mesons.

There's probably a lesson here about the binding power of brotherhood which can often be a stronger union than the male-female.

"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
-- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), "Life of Reason" (1905) Vol. 1, Introduction