----- Original Message ---- > From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson [email protected]
> > At present we find ourselves feverishly speculating: Could the heat be > the result of harnessing a mysterious and not understood casimir > effect? Could it be due to ZPE flagrantly exposing itself out in the > macro world? Could it be due to a variant of the Widom-Larsen effect, > where ultra-low-momentum neutrons ramble aimlessly about within the > nickel lattice like dimwitted bulls stumbling about in a china chop? > Could it be due to not well understood quantum mechanical nuclear > effects (fusion/lenr/canr)? Could it be due to pesky no-see-um > hydrinos? Or is it possibly due to one of my favorites: alchemy, the > Steam Punk variety! > > collection of quotes about alchemy http://www.ojardimhermetico.com/eng/04alquimia1.html "It is erroneous to confuse alchemy with chemistry. Modem chemistry is a science dealing only with the outward manifestations of matter. It never produces anything new. One can mix, compose and decompose two or three chemical substances any number of times, and make them reappear in different forms, but in the end there is no increase in substance; there is only the combination of the substances used at the outset. Alchemy neither composes nor mixes: it increases and activates that which already exists in a latent state. Therefore alchemy can be more accurately compared with botany or agriculture than with chemistry. In fact, the growth of a plant, a tree or an animal is an alchemical process taking place in the alchemical laboratory of nature and conducted by the Great Alchemist, the active power of God in nature." - Franz Hartmann The alchemical operation consisted essentially in separating the prima materia, the so-called chaos, into the active principle, the soul, and the passive principle, the body, which were then reunited in personified form in the coniunctio or "chymical marriage"... the ritual cohabitation of Sol and Luna. - C. G. Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis
