Why is gravity so important to alchemists?
Because without gravity traditional alchemical works would not exist. The humid paths use gravity as a hammer, which counts as supreme tools (the typical example is represented by Fire of nature and Fire against nature).
Nature and unnatural in what sense?
This is the typical, abstruse vocabulary of alchemists. In short, fire, naturally, tends to push upward. But the next step is to bring it down. This may seem counterintuitive now, but it will be explained directly in the section on alchemical works.
Am I to understand that fire, the common kind, can become an instrument of gravity?
Common fire is commonly understood as the alchemist’s “hammer” and “fan”. In this sense, it can become an oscillating instrument of gravity and antigravity.
If gravity appears so decisive in alchemical works…
It is essential in terrestrial alchemical works.
It was appropriate of you to specify the terrestrial aspect of gravity because I instead meant to refer directly to dark matter, which seems to be prevalent in the cosmos and which above all seems to affect gravity in a general sense. So, what are the alchemists thoughts regarding Dark Matter Theory?
In fact, apparently, billions of dark matter particles pass through us every second. Yet no one notices: even the effect of billions of dark matter particles on us is negligible. The fact is that we cannot perceive dark matter. Physicists say that dark matter is so undetectable that it might as well not exist, However, it seems that dark matter interacts with “classical” matter through gravity.
In light of this, and beyond the instrumental means of the average alchemist on earth, I venture to formulate a hypothesis: what if it were the gravity that dark matter exerts on known matter that produces the “movement” so sought after by alchemists?
The force exerted by dark matter on gravity could be a point, indeed.
What is an alchemist’s view on the experimental fact that, without gravity, biological life on Earth becomes disoriented and struggles in its functions?
In fact, it seems that without an “up” or “down” reference, even biological reproductive mechanisms show systematic failures even at the microscopic level. For example, some experiments have shown that, without gravity, sperm become disoriented and fertilization drops dramatically.
Finally, the effect of gravitational waves on the quantum field. A gravitational wave can also distort the quantum field surrounding an atom. This alteration doesn’t change the number of photons emitted—so it doesn’t make the atom brighter or dimmer—but it does change their frequency based on the direction of emission…
… So much so that the difference in scale generates an amplified effect that could allow us to detect the presence of a gravitational wave by observing only the behavior of the light emitted by an atom. As an alchemist, I can only acknowledge this interesting research. This is one of the clear cases in which science contributes more to alchemy than alchemy can to science.