Return to Book 02 - Chapter 07 - Instability, and the Illusion of Stability in Motion
solar systems are made with wheels of bevel gears with cones rolling upon cones and shafts eccentrically placed. [See Reciprocating Proportionality, Wheelwork of Nature]
The great wheels of solar systems change their bevels and their eccentricities to conform to their positions in the machine of which they are a part.
There is but one position in the universal machine in which the wheels run parallel in plane without intersection, without precession and without eccentricity.
In this position in the atom, or its repetition in larger masses, there are no equinoxes, no ascending or descending nodes and no aphelions or perihelions.
This is in the element carbon, where inhalation ends and exhalation begins, where instability and the illusion of stability are at their maximum.
There are cone and disc clutches in the universal machine which grasp and slip with the same relative persistance and looseness with which man is perfectly familiar in his mechanics.
These qualities give us relatively rigid bodies, such as this dense planet, the more dense sun, pithy Saturn and vaporous Neptune.
These qualities give us the same relative rigidities in the elements, such as carbon in the diamond, and less dense substances down through the solid metals and metaloids to their gaseous expansions in such elements as hydrogen and its mate helionon.
The contours of the cone clutches which give great surface tension pressure contract toward the poles, disappearing in the axes and gravitative centers of all masses.
The disc clutches which slip are the contours of expanding cones. These lose their ability to hold as the cones expand into disappearance at the equatorial planes of all masses. [See image Evolution of Mass showing nested cones, expanding cone bases at equator, etc.]
Stability in motion is, therefore, greatest at the centers of all masses and, superficially, at their poles.
On the contrary, instability in motion is greatest at the equators of all masses. As a consequence, rigidity in all mass is greatest at its poles where the cone clutches hold, and flexibility is greatest at its equators where the disc clutches slip.
The cone clutches at the poles of the sun of our solar system, for example, hold fast. That is why the expanded magnetic bases of the equatorial belt of the sun moves faster than the contracted polar magnetic bases.
That is also why the equatorial belt of the sun is hotter than the polar zones.
The slipping of the oppositely moving discs generates much heat. [See resistance, Law of Heat]
That explains the boiling bubbles which we call "sun spots" which move nearer to the equator of the sun and farther away again in oppositely whirling spiral pools during each eleven year breathing period of the sun.
That is why the corona of the sun extends so far into interstellar space at its equator and so much less so at its poles.
That is how, and one reason why, another planet will soon be born to the already pregnant sun.
That is why Jupiter has its belts and Saturn the rings which Jupiter will also have when his axis tilts a little farther to change the bevel gearing of his wheels.
That is why Uranus and Neptune are reversing their poles.
That is why nature added the gyroscopic principle to her mechanics of motion in order to create the illusion of stability in her corpuscular solids of motion.
That explains the isoclinal lines which run around this planet, forming new bases for the expanding cones of radiation, like the rim of an umbrella which gradually opens until it is in one plane.
That is why all masses emanate magnetic lines of force at isoclinal lines and regenerate them by absorption at the poles.
That is why the compass needle loses its dip on the zero isoclinal line which roughly follows the geographic equator, and swings its north
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