Physics in Alchemy, Time and Memory

A phenomenon reserved only for the few who have heard the eighth note in the end of the last Cooking. Today physicists admit that particles like photons behave in a confusing, probabilistic way rather than following rigid rules. This could be the most fascinating aspect, that is, the entry into an unlimited temporal dimension in which past, present and future come together. But so few were able to witness this supreme event that it is only mentioned for the sake of the record. If it is true that the photon, which moves at the speed of light, has no residual energy to move even in time, this means that it does not experience the passage of time but only an eternal present.

Letting aside plasma, today we assume that the different states of matter depend on different cohesion of molecules, speed and properties of molecular motion. However, we distinguish these states only by their external features, which are very inconstant and often mixed. The transition forms from one state of matter to another overlap and are not clear. Therefore, we often do not know precisely when one state passes into another, we cannot draw a sharp dividing line between the states of matter and we cannot say when a solid has been transformed into a liquid and when a liquid has been transformed into a gas. However, it can be said with certainty that the finer the state of matter, the more energetic it is considered, that is, containing, so to speak, less substance and more motion.

We quote here Mérelle who quotes Ouspensky: “If matter is opposed to time, it will be possible to say that each finer state contains more time and less matter than a coarser state. There is more ‘time’ in a liquid than in a solid; there is more ‘time’ in a gas than in a liquid. If we accept the possibility of still finer states of matter, they should be more energetic than those recognized by physics; according to the above, they should contain more time and less space, still more motion and still less substance.”

However, Merélle only quotes one sentence from Ouspensky, but not the conclusions: the “extracted” time will be an additional time that cannot coexist in our “world”. It could be part of an “imaginary” world that is next to us but that interferes little in our world. Ouspensky imagines that it interacts with us through the so-called astral world, which alchemists considers as the invisible and impalpable matter that surrounds and permeates any body. They call it Spiritus Mundi, Mercurius, Quintessence, Sky, Alchemical Light.

Time crystals unfold not in space but in time; they are chains of atoms that pulsate in the absence of energy, remaining in motion in time without requiring the action of a force. Structures that constantly change over time and then always return to their initial configuration, in our imagination, could be close to eternity. Indeed, they might reveal the difference between eternity and perpetuity, what Greek philosophers called the difference between Archetype and One. But this is one of those questions that can only be answered by those who have actually managed to reach the end of Last Cooking.

The Phonon affair is very intriguing. Some solids and liquids are made up of regular three-dimensional lattices of atoms. These atoms are not completely immobile in their lattice positions, but have a certain “play” that gives them freedom of movement, albeit limited. The small movements of one atom can be transmitted to adjacent atoms, thus propagating through the lattice. The result is a “collective” vibration that we can describe as a wave. These vibrations can have different frequencies, traceable back to a set of fundamental frequencies associated with the standing waves – normal modes – characteristic of the substance. The term phonons is used to describe the particle equivalents of these lattice vibrations. The choice of name is related to the fact that some of the vibration frequencies fall in the acoustic spectrum (they are sound waves).

Knowing that photon-like particles have the possibility of memory could be the scientific explanation for the “memory” of metals that can be reconstructed, or even transmuted, from their rubble. But what is this “memory” made up of?

An alchemical field, however ineffable, must be tangible. Placing the sigma field in the imaginary makes it tangible only for mathematical purposes. However, let’s go ahead with the explanation, who knows, we might find something interesting for the alchemist too: “… Continuing to decompose, the particles will get to particles that can be defined as punctiform or points in space. However, it is unclear how a mathematical point can be equipped with mass, electric charge, and spin (rotate around itself). It can be better to assume that these points can be defined as a trace of something that is not extended in space but in another space called imaginary.

Consequently, the memory may be a sigma field obtained by the fusion of neutrinos. Since the psi wave is the look of the particle in real, we will have to pair the look of the psi wave to the sigma field of imaginary. The sigma field is more complicated than the psi wave. This is composed of a single neutrino, while the sigma field is composed of two neutrinos around each other at a well-defined frequency, that of the photon.

Anyway, there is a problem: where are these point particles? The photon is not seen in the circular space to move up to the point where it transmits pulse energy. Is it perhaps a long-distance transmission by transmitting the pulse energy from the photon directly from the issuer to recipients without any intermediary between them?”.

I don’t know if De Broglie’s mathematical function could explain the alchemical symbolism of the gaze and the rays that emanate from the gaze, in any case, it would be really intriguing to know.

“Drinking from the pure source of Mnemosyne, he/she who wants to flee from the waters of Lethe, become immortal, no longer the son of the Earth only, but of the starry Uranus”, so sang Orpheus (or whoever under this name). Thus began my article on the psi wave calculated by De Broglie. In this sense, as an alchemist, I prefer to think like physicists: the psi wave function cannot be alien to our consciousness, our destiny, our memory.

If the alchemists of the Baroque age had ever heard of De Broglie’s mathematical demonstration of the fusion of spin particles called “psi wave” – which is the famous phase wave of which is equipped every particle of matter from Louis de Broglie’s theory of Light formulation in 1924 – they would certainly have found enormous insights into the explanation of many alchemical phenomena of “nourishment” and “last supper”.

This theory could represent an acceptable explanation for the Philosophers’ Stone.