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Six - IN CLOSING
People who actually work in an industry dealing with electromagnetic radiation still consider ether to be a reality. In the Air Force as a navigator using radio in multiple bands, radar of two types, and something called LORAN, I read many publications dealing with ether and the waves within it. In the telephone company as an engineer, the same was true to an even greater degree.
Navigators and engineers rely very strongly upon what they know. To be wrong can cost lives. The same is true of other public-serving professional people. The key is what works and what makes sense.
Assuming that some of what has been said in this series makes sense to some of those in the field of physics today and in the future, much of the effort and dollars spent can eventually be devoted to research along a different path in which the existence of the primal fluid can be acknowledged.
If physicists do not choose to accept the concept of a dynamic medium which transmits light, perhaps engineers and practical people, who already accept a similar concept, will embrace a new book about gravity. In the course of time, it is the practical people who are the actual creators and retainers of usable knowledge.
The effect of nether upon relativity is little. Most of the theory of relativity is valid in the sense that its equations work. The other branches of current-day physics will not suffer either, except that they will be better explained.
We have a strange idea of progress. We have a disposable civilization, complete with its senseless waste, cluttering gadgets, heaps of garbage, frantic activity, lack of forethought, rampant ugliness, and worship of materiality. We live for the moment and hope there will be another. We have little that is permanent, but look down upon those who once preserved timeless mathematics in enduring stone.
But existence is cyclic. Someday, this century will be considered the one in which the dark ages were beginning to end. Those who expended great effort to avoid listening and seeing will be seen as objects invoking humor and pity. And perhaps more of the people in the next millenium will have more realistic priorities that will be aided with the knowledge that everything in our universe really is one thing - a huge expanse of seething, boiling, expanding, accelerating, non-particulate fluid.
And perhaps the key to the big bang is a Creator who likes to blow bubbles.
The wave, the sea, and the bubbles are all one.
All is one, nothing else, whether less or more.
Ni'matullah Wali
Contents - Book Three - Electromagnetism