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NEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCE Theosophists first proposed it. But what of | field line which directly joins the quark and | called vector mesons and there are 37 dif- subatomic particles? Are they really bub- | the antiquark inside the meson. But we can | ferent types of them in nature. bles? think of the Nambu string (or spring) as a Non-spinning ‘matter bubbles’ would In Figure 1A we see electric field lines | kind of elastic band which can be stretched. | tend to be spherical. They are called scalar radiating through the aether between | If drawn too far apart, as when the meson | mesons and there are 36 different kinds of | charged particles. As the electrical charges | bubble divides into two, we can think of | them also in nature. are moved apart, the field lines spread | the Nambu string as snapping—but it can The occult chemists Besant and apart, off to infinity. never have free ends because field lines | Leadbeater drew both kinds—vector and But one of the simplest kinds of ‘massive’ | must begin and end on ‘charges’ (in this | scalar mesons—as their E3 state of matter, particles, a meson, is shown in Figure 1B. | case, quarks and antiquarks). in 1895. The meson is actually a bubble in the So in order for the Nambu string to snap, | Footnotes: 1, Chris Mert,” ical Cosmogenesis", Theosophy in aether (quantum vacuum) and its internal | a quark-antiquark pair must be sucked into | Aisealia, $4(4):204-8, ber 1990. (‘matter’) field lines are trapped within the | existence from out of the aether. The quark | 2. A. Besant and C. W. Leadbeater, Occult Chemisiry, bubble, Indeed, if the bubble is somehow | and the antiquark cancel out each other | 3" Walus'kimusat rhe Physics ofthe Scorer Doctrine, stretched, the (‘matter’) field lines actually | (like +1 - 1 = 0), so we haven't obtained anaaenica Fl lishing House, London, 1910. ; draw closer together! This is exactly the | something for nothing. Figure 2 thus thay feng Fr i Mer vate Goon ons opposite to ‘electric’ field lines in the | shows a meson (matter bubble) dividing aether! into two—and the simplified Nambu elastic In fact, if the meson bubble stretches too | string ‘cartoon’ gives us another way of far, it can divide into two bubbles (as in | viewing the process. Figure 2). The ‘charges’ inside the bubbles One way we could stretch and divide a are called quarks (represented by black | meson bubble would be to make it spin dots) and antiquarks (represented by white | very fast: then the centripetal force would dots). draw the quark and antiquark apart, stretch- Instead of drawing the bubble in the | ing the elastic ‘string’ that holds them aether, and all its internal field lines, we | together. Thus, spinning 'matter bubbles’ in will henceforth introduce a kind of cartoon | the aether (quantum vacuum) would tend to called the "Nambu string". It is just the | be elongated and oval-shaped. They are leinemann, 1' the bubble the bubble elongates divides into two A spinning p-meson, of approxi- mate radius 1.32 fermis, can be stretched by centrifugal force and divided into two 7-mesons. This division process can be visualised in terms of an aetheric bubble that elongates (ABOVE), or else as an elastic Nambu string that stretches till it 'beads' (like water issuing from a tap) then finally ‘snaps' (LEFT). Elastic Nambu strings are simplified concep- tual cartoons of the full quark field-lines inside the bubble. A spinning p-meson, of approxi- mate radius 1.32 fermis, can be stretched by centrifugal force and divided into two 7-mesons. two This division process can be visualised in terms of an aetheric bubble that elongates (ABOVE), or else as an elastic Nambu string that stretches till it 'beads' (like water issuing from a tap) then finally ‘snaps' (LEFT). Elastic Nambu strings are simplified concep- tual cartoons of the full quark field-lines inside the bubble. al NEXUS © 59 OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1994