eeping in mind water's dielectric value of 81 and its enormous resistance to the transfer of charges, let us now examine the thermal structure of the atmosphere (fig. 6.2), for this may explain to us another way in which, apart from the accumulation of heat, the Earth could become charged with life energy.
The portion of the atmosphere most impor- tant to us and which affects us most is the troposphere, which from fig. 6.2 can be seen to terminate at the tropopause between 6km and 18km up. Curiously enough, we also find that the temperature neither decreases nor increases constantly (shown as wavy broken line), but fluctuates as we ascend through the various atmospheric layers, so that at a certain altitude, at 29km for instance, the temperature is -60°C, whereas at a height of 80km it is +10°C. Somewhere between these two temperatures, therefore, there is a layer where the temperature is +4°C. According to my calculations there are at least four such levels where the temperature equals +4°C, at altitudes of about 3.5km, 77km, 85km and 175km.
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EXOSPHERE: The outermost layer of the Earth's atmosphere extending from about 400km-
500km above the Earth's surface, where terrestrial gravitation is too weak an effect to prevent the escape of uncharged particles.
THERMOSPHERE: An atmospheric layer lying between the mesosphere and the exosphere,
reaching an altitude of about 400km, where the temperature is over 1000°C. [Is this thermal or kinetic? - CC]
IONOPAUSE: The transitional zone in the atmosphere between the ionosphere and the exosphere about 644km (400 miles) from the Earth's surface.
IONOSPHERE: A region of the Earth's atmosphere extending from about 60km to 1000km above the Earth's surface in which there is a high concentration of free electrons formed as a result of ionising radiation entering the atmosphere from space.
F-REGION: 150km-1000km. Highest proportion of free electrons and most useful for long-
range radio transmissions, also called the Appleton Layer. [+4°C stratum at about 175 km-CC]
E-REGION: 90km-150km. Reflects radio waves of medium wavelength, also called the Heaviside Layer. [+4°C stratum at about 85km - CC]
D-REGION: 60km-90km. Lowest region of the ionosphere - Low concentration of free
electrons and reflects low-frequency radio waves. [+4°C stratum at about 72km - CC]
MESOPAUSE: The zone of minimum temperature between the mesosphere and the thermosphere.
MESOSPHERE: The atmospheric layer lying between the stratosphere and the thermosphere characterised by a rapid increase in temperature with height. The atmospheric zone immediately above the stratosphere marked by a temperature maximum of +10°C between altitudes of 48km and 53km.
STRATOPAUSE: The transitional zone of maximum temperature between the stratosphere and the mesosphere.
STRATOSPHERE: The atmospheric layer lying between the troposphere and the mesosphere in which the temperature generally increases with height. The atmospheric zone immediately above the tropopause, including the Ozone layer.
TROPOPAUSE: The plane of discontinuity between the troposphere and the stratosphere
characterised by a sharp change in the lapse rate4 and varying in altitude from about 18km (11 miles) above the equator to 6km (4 miles) above the Poles.
TROPOSPHERE: The lowest atmospheric layer about 18km thick at the equator and 6km thick at the Poles in which air temperature decreases with height at about 6.5°C/km. Most meteorological phenomena occur in this layer. The innermost zone of the Earth's atmosphere extending from the surface to the tropopause.
Since there is water vapour in the atmos- phere near these various altitudes in the form of cumulus and cirrus clouds (troposphere), nacreous clouds (stratosphere) and noctilu- cent clouds (mesosphere) as shown on fig. 6.3, we have a situation where a thin stra- tum of pure water may exist at each of these levels, which has a high resistance to the transfer of an electric charge. In view of the presence of these various +4°C strata and water's high dielectric value of 81, it could be postulated that their combined effect would act to create a natural bio-condenser, a con- denser being a device with which an electric charge can be accumulated and stored. Before elaborating further on this hypothesis, however, it is necessary here briefly to explain the principles of an electrical condenser. In its most elementary form, a condenser consists of two electrically charged plates, one with a positive charge equal to the other's negative charge. If the positive charged is raised on one side of the
dielectric then the negative charge automati-
cally rises to the same level on the other. In fig. 6.4 these two charged plates are separated by the intervening dielectric (the largest ele- ment), which in this case we shall deem to be pure water. The charges themselves are dis- tributed uniformly over the surfaces of the two plates.
In order to increase the charge density on one side of the dielectric, the surface area of the respective plate is reduced. If this plate is reduced to a quarter the size of the other, then its charge density is four times that of the larger plate (fig. 6.5). The force with which the two opposite charges try to equalise or attract each other is known as the potential. The smaller the separation between the charges, the smaller the distance between them, the greater the potential, which increases by the inverse square of the separa- tion. Therefore, if the separation is 10mm, for example, then the potential is 12. If the sepa-
ration is reduced to 1/2 i.e. 5mm, then the
potential is 22 (=4) and so on, as shown in fig. 6.6. The smaller the separation, therefore, the greater the corresponding potential, which could be unleashed once the permit- tivity of the dielectric has been overcome.
If the charge surface on one side and the separation are decreased simultaneously, then both charge density and potential increase exponentially relative to the initial magnitude of the charges and sizes of the charge-plates (fig. 6.7). If we now recompose these plates in the form of concentric cylin- ders as shown in fig. 6.8, then as the surface area of the inner cylindrical plate is necessar- ily smaller, the charge and potential increase automatically from the outside inwards. The greater the number of nested plates, there- fore, the more intense the potentiation.
Referring once more to fig. 6.3, we can see that from the outside inwards, like an onion, each succeeding layer has a smaller surface area owing to their concentricity. In other words, these layers form a condenser with concentric spherical plates (fig. 6.9). It could therefore be construed that, on encountering each successive, concentric, spherical +4°C dielectric stratum, the potential of the energy coming from the Sun is gradually magnified. As the Sun's energy passes from the outside towards the inside, it becomes increasingly concentrated as it approaches the Earth's sur- face, due to these enveloping layers of +4°C water, which as noted earlier does not freeze at temperatures of -40°C.
Viewed from a more cosmic perspective these strata are extremely close together, pro- ducing a very high potential. Relative to the average diameter of the Earth - 12,660.912km - the height of the highest of these +4°C strata represents only 0.0138%. In other words, if the Earth were depicted as a sphere with a diameter of 1 metre, then these four or
so strate would lie within 13.8mm of the sur- face. From this arises the concept of the Earth as an accumulator of energy within whose volume a charge is progressively built up. This accumulation of energy naturally enhances the emergence of life because, with- out energy without differences in charge, gender, potential or a suitable energy field any form of life is impossible. As charge-resisting layers, these mooted diaelectric strata could also in part contribute to the reflection of long, medium and short- wave radio transmissions from different altitudes as shown on fig. 6.3, normally attrib- uted to different ionisation levels for in each of the so-called D-, E- and F-regions water vapour is present at different densities. Being in a lower dynamic and more harmonically stabilised energetic state, the greater density of water vapour at increasingly lower alti- tudes may well correspond through reso- nance to the lower wavelengths of the incident radiation, whose frequency has been reduced by contact with the braking effect of
the atmosphere, thus creating the medium with which radio-waves are reflected back to Earth.