LEARNING CENTER
LEARNING CENTER FOR PARAMAGNETISM
Paramagnetism is a physical
force. Not a hard-to-grasp spiritual essence, but a force
that is identified and detailed in every physics handbook
in the world. The knowledge of this force by the ancients
is indisputable.
In paramagnetism the atoms
or molecules of the substance have net orbital or spin magnetic
moments that are capable of being aligned in the direction
of the applied field - (Dictionary of Chemistry)
Exactly what in plain language,
does this definition of paramagnetism mean?
First we must define the term
magnetic moment. If you spin a fixed magnet in the
center of a loop of wire, you generate electricity in the
wire, creating an electric generator. Magnetic moment is the
ration between the maximum torque exerted on a magnet or current-carrying
coil, or the charge in a magnetic field, and the strength
of the field itself. Since atoms and molecules spin, rotate,
and vibrate in all kinds of predictable directions depending
on their makeup, they are in effect, little dynamic generators
displaying both field strength and torque (torque = rotating
power in a mechanism). In summary, magnetic moment is the
ratio of the strength of the magnetic field to rotating power.
It is obvious that the earth
and cosmos itself has a magnetic moment since it has a low-energy
magnetic field of about ½ gauss. Gauss is the CGS
unit of magnetic flux. CGS means Centimeter, Grams,
Seconds. Put quite simply, if you have one gram of a substance,
on centimeter from a magnet, in what part of one second will
it move to the magnet? Put another way, what weight of a paramagnetic
material will move one centimeter to a magnet in one second?
Any substance, including soil
or rock, that will move toward a magnet is paramagnetic. If
you can measure the CGS of a substance then you will know
the measure of its attractance force to magnet. CGS is known
as susceptibility because it is obvious that if a
substance moves to a magnet, then it is susceptible to a magnetic
field. Other ways to say it are that the substance is attracted
to magnet field, or resonating to the field or grabbed hold
of by the field, or even loves the field!
If a paramagnetic substance
is placed in a strong magnetic field, all of the field lines
will eventually line up, as illustrated:
In nature, all substances are
in a weak cosmic magnetic field, which is the earth's ever-present
½ gauss, therefore they are aligned thus:
They are then not completely
random, or, as mathematicians might say, in a complete chaotic
arrangement. That is why chaotic mathematics is so important
to a study of paramagnetism. Take heed chaotic mathematicians.
Once place in a strong magnetic field like the electromagnetic
coil of a CGS meter, they become more aligned. The measure
of the more aligned is the measure of the paramagnetic force,
or the CGS measure.
Now that we know that paramagnetism
is the alignment of a force field in one direction by a substance
in a magnetic field, then we must ask, what is diamagnetism?
The Dictionary of Chemistry defines diamagnetism
as follows: "Diamagnetism is the magnetization in the
opposite direction to that of the applied magnetic field,
e.g., the susceptibility is negative away from the
magnetic field." Actually all substances are diamagnetic,
but it is a weak form of magnetism and may be masked by other,
stronger forces, for instance a magnetic field.
Diamagnetism results from changes
induced in the torque by bits of electrons that oppose the
applied magnetic flux. There is thus a weak negative susceptibility
to the magnet. Most organic compounds, including all plants,
are diamagnetic. If plants are diamagnetic and good growing
soil paramagnetic, then we must be dealing with the yin
and yang of Chinese and Japanese geomancy, or the
energy put forth by the crane and turtle rock formation.
Why are the crane and turtle
rock important? Simply because most of the ancient Zen gardens
that I have observed over the years appeared to be both paramagnetic/crane
and diamagnetic/turtle! This was observed and documented in
the Secret Book of Gardening. The diamagnetic properties
of the flattened turtle rock are visually obvious by the amount
of white quartz in it. One does not chip pieces of beautiful
Zen garden rock to study its CGS properties, but most quartz
is not only recognizable by sight, it is also either neutral
or weakly diamagnetic.
The Nanzen-en stroll garden
of the Kamakura period has several high granite and low quartz
boulder arrangements as does the Ryogen-en garden designed
by Soami. The diamagnetic/paramagnetic, or yin/yang arrangement
is most often seen in the double crane and turtle configurations.
There is also a triple configuration that has a central granite
standing rock and two smaller granite paramagnetic lower rocks.
Tentoku-en, the landscape garden of the Momoyama period, has
a high crane basalt rock and low turtle limestone rock. Around
these rocks an arrangement of Chinese bellflowers grows in
profusion. Interestingly enough, they grow to the left of
the tall basalt crane rock and on the right side of the flatter
turtle rock.
By positioning such rocks in
relationship to the sun and to each other, one can control
plant growth. Apparently the ancients knew about this yin
and yang, diamagnetic/paramagnetic phenomenon and utilized
it in their Zen gardens. That such knowledge is now lost is
demonstrated by the fact that the crane/turtle arrangement
found at the elegant restaurant where my friend and I had
dinner was composed of stones that were both paramagnetic
and not paramagnetic/diamagnetic.
Before we move on to a discussion
of atmospheric ELF radio waves, it is important that we also
define magnetism (ferromagnetism). Ferro means iron.
Magnetism occurs in ferro-magnetic substances because it is
a characteristic of certain metals, particularly iron, at
certain temperatures. Below a certain temperature, called
the Curie point, an increasing magnetic field applied to iron,
or any ferromagnetic substance, will cause increasing magnetization
to a value so high that it becomes saturated and remains permanently
stored, aligned magnetic moment. It is analogous to a stored
DC battery.
Magnetic substances are extremely
rare in nature, the best known being the mineral magnetite.
Because of the rarity of magnetite, it is not apt to be the
growing force of nature. That does not mean that magnetism
is unimportant in the scheme of life.
In this regard, there is one
last point that should be made. Even though magnetism is a
fixed force, it does vary slightly. There is no such thing
as flat line DC - everything in nature alternates, at least
slightly. The simple fact is that the magnetic field of the
cosmos and the earth alternates far more than the field of
a fixed DC magnet. It is this alternating earth/cosmic field
to which volcanic soil and volcanic rock resonate, or to which
both are susceptible.
As in the case of plants, water
is diamagnetic. The atmosphere, because of the oxygen, is
paramagnetic. Some of my preliminary experiments at night,
during the full moon, indicate a paramagnetic/diamagnetic,
plant, moon, water and soil relationship in nature. We know
that the moon, which is highly paramagnetic, has a very strong
effect on tides, which are of diamagnetic water. The many
volcanic and/or meteorite cones indicate a paramagnetic moon
body even though I could find no data on this subject from
moon rock measurements.
It has long been known that
certain Indian tribes planted by the full moon. There is little
doubt in my mind that the American Indian knew more about
good agriculture techniques than modern agriculturists! As
the Sioux brave remarked while watching a farmer turning under
virgin prairie grass, "wrong side up!" (in Altars
of Unknown Stone by Wes Jackson).
