Did Ancient Alchemists Know How to Bend the Laws of Light?
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- Much of the advanced wisdom modern physicists are just attaining to today regarding the energy properties of what are being called meta-materials, was already known and utilized by alchemists who inherited their knowledge from unknown civilizations in the forgotten past
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Today, our modern physics is bound by the laws of refraction, or the ways in which light can be reflected and bent by various materials such as off smooth surfaces or by passing through liquids or glass. These laws of the actions of light were first codified in our present era by Arab scientists in the tenth century and updated by Dutch mathematicians in the seventeenth century. Not much has changed since then—that is, until now when modern researchers are looking at new possibilities, utilizing new materials with radical new properties that are allowing us to experience light in very different dimensions.
But did ancient alchemists once also understand and manipulate similar unknown materials they secretly developed over many forgotten millennia, that basically produced the same properties we are now only starting to discover?
Reading through various medieval alchemical manuscripts preserved in both China and in the West, these reveal that among the most prized abilities sought after—and actually achieved to a certain degree of success—were 1) the powers of invisibility, 2) peering into the super-microscopic world, and 3) using the essence of light to store and process information.
Modern researchers are just beginning to work with the sophisticated new properties of condensed-matter physics and unexplored frequencies of electromagnetism. Innovative electrical properties can now allow materials to absorb specific radiation when they are shaped into specific forms, such as long, thin fibers. Functions can also be altered by changing the materials’ internal structures on a very fine scale, measured to within less than a wavelength of whatever is being manipulated. These new, structurally altered substances are now being called meta-materials.
Some alchemical works from past ages spoke of producing long “beads” of special forms of carbon, and then “weaving” them into certain patterns which created unheard-of properties, such as magnetizing substances that were otherwise non-magnetic under normal conditions.
Another way of achieving this was to embed the “beads” as “miniscule loops” in something akin to glass, which were subsequently shaped into “wands” through which “the attacting powers” could actually be imparted to other non-magnetic articles. In such a manner, the alchemical wizards of other times figured out how to manipulate electromagnetic radiation including visible light. This is somewhat of an advanced order of physics beyond what we know of today, because magnetism is considered one of the core properties of matter, something imprinted into all atoms since the time of their creation. The idea of being able to switch magnetism on and off in any material allowed the ancient alchemists to exercise the powers of second creation—producing a new class of materials comprised of substances whose physical properties were no longer defined by their placement in the periodic chart of the elements, but rather exhibiting other unknown qualities that situated them somewhere “in-between” the elements.
Certain obscure alchemical documents described producing an invisibility cloak by fabricating optical meta-materials that worked in three-dimensions. It was made of alternating sheets of silver and a glass-like substance shaped like a fishnet containing rectangular holes that resembled waffles or sieves. As light traveled through this material, the alternating layers acted like circuits that bent light in unusual ways. Another medieval narrative also portrayed the use of silver micro-wires embedded in a solid base of meta-material glass. These substances, arranged in similar layered configurations, was able to guide light around an object, creating the desired cloak of invisibility.
Modern physicists are increasingly able to micro-fabricate meta-materials out of miniscule building blocks specifically engineered to exploit very different sorts of physical substances with unique energy signatures that can be generated on extremely small scales. The modern means to achieve this, however, is not that far removed from the ancient alchemical process of endless distillations and the addition of tinctures of very minute ingredients that resulted in fundamental elementary alterations.
The one vital aspect that has been missed by modern researchers today is the insistence by the ancient experimenters that most of their secret processes be conducted in full sunlight. This was based on the fact that when light hits a small object, the impacting radiation triggers a subtle effect that manifests as a pattern of localized energy waves. Under normal conditions, these waves vanish without a trace almost immediately after becoming active. But with the right meta-materials, and positioned in very specific geometric configurations, these ephemeral waves could picked up, preserved, processed and even amplified, converting them into a force that could be useful in ways we cannot begin to comprehend.
Another often cited alchemical material was an obscure form of silver, which when treated and transformed into a meta-material, could re-focus energy waves and transform the affected substance into a super-microscope, in order to “capture” images from the microcosmic world—from the cellular and microbial levels all the way down to the molecular and even subatomic levels. Mysterious early Renaissance manuscripts are full of nothing but drawings thst are now being recognized as some of the earliest perpections of infinitesimally small worlds far beyond what can be seen today with ordinary compound lenses. Even the strange esoteric artwork discovered among certain Egypt’s tomb paintings, are now being identifed as representative of very real nano-existences explored ages ago.
One set of alchemically engineered meta-materials was said to be able to store and retrieve energy waves from a little understood region of the electro-magnetic spectrum located between the infrared and microwave bands. Here we find what are called T-rays in the terahertz range, measured in frequencies of a trillion cycles per second. Such a spectrum, if exploited in a specific manner, would allow practically unlimited abilities to detect and image objects from subatomic particles all the way up to the formation of stars.
Not only this, but meta-materials partially made from alchemical gold were able to absorb T-rays and convert them into heat and light whose essential energy is not in anyway reduced but is instead maintained continuously virtually unchanged. Such heat and light signatures can be organized into information carriers, which in turn can be stored for untold ages in such substances as quartz crystals. Whole libraries of forgotten data from lost civilizations may one day be retrieved from quartz-encrusted granite walls or even grains of sand kept in sacred enclosures of ancient temple precincts.
Not only this, but other alchemical meta-materials were coherently tuned to the presence of specific molecules, and were utilized for controlling water waves and sound waves. Within such mediums, information bytes “tossed” into a “pond” of meta-material could produce “ripples” that flowed either inward or outward from the point of “impact,” and in “plus” and “minus” series infinitely faster than in any ordinary electronic dipolar computer can function today.
{Copyright 2009. Joseph Robert Jochmans. All Rights Reserved.]
