Prosperity Engine — Update — Mastering Mass
Physical reality consists of four key dimensions or “elements” (STEM):
Space,Time,Energy, andMass
In this article, we will look at some drills we can do to master the dimension of mass.
Mass has been defined variously as,
Solid matter.Source of gravity.Consolidated or encysted energy.Doubt.The opposite of confidence.Heaviness.Source of constant inertia.Resistance to change.
Mass gives us a stability or point of reference within space and time. In a sense, mass is a source of “stop,” the opposite of spiritual (paramita) confidence, which is more at “go.” Mass represents the failure or collapse of reality. In fact, the most extreme mass—the black hole—will not let even light escape. It remains “doubt” which is the ultimate in spiritual failure. In some philosophical circles, mass is the trap for all things spiritual—a trap which we must learn to escape.
And paradoxically, the focus on escape makes it more and more difficult to escape. The focus needs to be on its opposites. This includes paramita confidence—not “confidence to escape,” because then the attention goes to the thing from which we are “struggling” to escape, rather than the freedom which is objective of the escape. The phrase “confidence to escape” is physical, because it contains a negative concept—the fact that there is a need for something we don’t yet have. In the spiritual realm, there is no such thing as “lack” or “scarcity” or “need.” In the spiritual realm, “confidence” is perfect without any of the seeds of doubt or other negative concepts.
The Limits of Mass by Scale
[image error]Clean surface of pure gold seen through a scanning tunneling microscope, with bands of several atoms wide in the surface structure. Image: ErwinRossen (PD).
On one end of the scale, we might measure the mass of a subatomic particle, like an electron, or extremely close to zero mass with the electron neutrino.
On the other end of the scale, we might measure the mass of an entire galaxy or galactic supercluster.
And on the moderate, middle range of the scale of mass, we have the human experience, measured in the amount of mass in a grain of sand, the mass of a human body, or the mass of a rocket and payload before launch.
Unsolved Fundamental Question of Physics
One of several unsolved questions of physics involves the disparity between matter and anti-matter. There is far more matter than anti-matter in the known universe. When anti-matter collides with regular matter, the two unravel, releasing horrendous amounts of energy. This does not merely produce copious amounts of energy, but a gargantuan flood of energy from the total annihilation of both the matter and the anti-matter. All that mass is converted into energy. The amount of energy produced is described in Einstein’s famous equation,
E = mc2
The symbol, “c,” is the velocity of light. In the MKS system of units, this would be 299,792,458 meters per second. Squaring this produces a huge number:
89,875,517,873,681,764
or about 89.9 quadrillion meters squared per second squared.
When we multiply this value times one kilogram of mass, we get 89.9 quadrillion Joules of energy. That’s equivalent to 24.99 Billion kilowatt hours (kWh). This means that the perfect conversion of one kilogram of mass into energy could, with perfect conversion to electricity, power 1,000 hundred Watt light bulbs for 28.5 years! For most people, that’s roughly half a lifetime. So, we might easily run every appliance in our home for our entire lifetime by converting 3–4 kilograms of mass into energy.
I remember one science fiction movie where aliens attacked Earth because they had used up all their matter stores by converting it all into energy. Of course, their civilization was far older than our own. Perhaps they had learned how to convert mass to energy some several million years ago. Interesting story, even if the movie was a bit cheesy.
Here’s an idea for solving the matter-anti-matter conundrum. Say, for example, that when the Big Bang occurred, spewing into the newly created space all the energy and newly-minted mass in our young universe, there were two lobes of physical existence—a mostly matter lobe and a mirror-image, mostly anti-matter lobe. Everything that happens in one is perfectly mirrored in the other. They are inextricably connected by a higher dimension than space or time, so in one sense, they coexist in the same time and space, but residing on different sides of that higher dimension. How would we test such a hypothesis? That’s the next great question, one for which I do not yet have an answer.
Burdens of Mass—Various Forms of Overwhelm
[image error]Massive Mt. Everest, tallest mountain on Earth. Photo: #276995 Simon (CC0) Pixabay.
We can have too little mass or too much mass.
The overwhelm of too little mass can take many forms. One involves extremely low air pressure—the kind we might find on a planet with too little mass, and thus too small a gravitational attraction in order to hold onto a righteous atmosphere.
Mars fits into this category, but just barely. It’s possible that Mars could retain a replenished atmosphere for several million years. Though this is a blink of the eye on the geological time scale, it’s plenty of time for new Martians to “top off” their atmosphere every few hundred thousand years to keep their world habitable. Scientists hypothesize that Mars lost its original atmosphere during the first billion years of its existence—spending the last 3.5 billion years in relative desolation.
Earth would eventually lose all its atmosphere, given enough time, but the sun will run out of primary fuel (hydrogen) long before that happens. The leakage from our upper atmosphere is slow enough to keep us safe for the full “warranty” period of our planet. And when the sun becomes a red giant star, in about 5–6 billion years, Earth will be enveloped by our ballooning primary star, becoming a brief spark of vaporized iron in the upper atmosphere of our aged sun.
On the other side of mass, too much might look like the bone-crushing gravity of a planet like Jupiter. Even if a gas giant were the right distance from its primary star to have the right temperature, if it were an Earth-like world, a gas giant has no solid surface, but a soup of thicker and thicker atmosphere which becomes liquid and then solid through immense pressure. Even if humans could build floating platforms—dirigibles—amongst the clouds of a gas giant, the gravitational pull on the human body would become dangerous and extremely uncomfortable. In such a field, your body’s mass doesn’t change, but your weight would be far greater. Amongst the clouds of Jupiter, for instance, a 100 kg (mass and Earth weight = 220.46 lbs) man would weigh 253 kg (557.8 lbs) on a weighing scale. Such gravity would make falls far more dangerous. And imagine having to carry another adult and a mid-sized child on your back all day long.
The mass of a black hole would prove to be far more dangerous. But mass alone is not the only problem. The other side of this “coin” involves something called “density.” Some scientists have hypothesized that black holes can come in all manner of masses—not just the super bruisers which used to be burnt out stellar cores—thousands of times the mass of Earth.
In 1971, British physicist, Stephen Hawking, theorized that a black hole could exist at far smaller masses. The limit for such a black hole is, theoretically, 2.2×10−8 kg or 22 micrograms (μg; 2.2 ten-thousandths of a single gram). That’s tiny.
What would make it a black hole is the density of the mass, and the event horizon which traps light and doesn’t let it escape. Closer to the physical object than this event horizon, the escape velocity exceeds the velocity of light. Gravitational distortion of such a micro-black hole could rip ordinary, nearby matter to shreds. But the gravitational field of 22 μg is extremely weak—weaker than that of a grain of sand. So, the tiniest theoretical black hole would only adversely affect nearby atoms on the distance scale of nanometers.
According to an Astronomy magazine article, “Using the Schwarzschild radius calculation, a black hole the size [mass] of Earth would have a radius of less than one inch, making it about as big as a ping pong ball” (Buongiorno).
So, imagine this black “ping pong ball” being placed on the roof of a tall building next to a skyscraper twice its height. If we could hold the black hole at that location for an extended period of time, the skyscraper would likely become warped around the intense gravitational pull of the black hold. However, this micro-black hole wouldn’t stay there very long, because it would have the gargantuan mass of our entire planet, but the “footprint” of a tiny ping pong ball. It’d be like an elephant with legs and feet as slender as needles. Before such a micro-black hole crushed its way through the building and toward the core of Earth, the nearby skyscraper would “feel” two Earth’s of gravitational force—one from below, and one from the side. And, since buildings were not designed to lay on their sides, our skyscraper would instantly suffer structural damage from the sudden Earth-strength gravitational field pulling from that side. This would be complicated by the fact that the gravitational pull on the nearby face of the skyscraper would be significantly greater than the gravitational attraction at the distance of the opposite side of the skyscraper. This difference would create immense shearing forces, like those which prevent a solid moon of any significant size from existing at the distance of Saturn’s rings from its mother planet. The shearing force between near and far faces of a moon become completely damaging to such a moon within what is called Roche’s Limit. Within that limit, a moon of any significant size would be ripped to shreds.
Such a mini-black hole would likely take huge chunks of the city, the crust, mantle and core with it, increasing its mass as it tore a hole into the side of our home planet. Would Earth survive, or would the bone-crushing density of the black hole unhinge every bit of rock or iron from nearby, soon doubling the mass of the black hole? This would change the orbit of our Moon, and threaten the stability of the orbits of nearby planets.
As we can see, the orbits of our planets in the Solar System are a finely balanced “clock mechanism” of relative stability. Introducing a large gravitational field into the midst of the Solar System could destroy that balance.
Exercising Our Control Over Mass
[image error]Massive wrecking ball used on old milling building, Dresden, Germany. Photo: Stefan Kühn (CC BY-SA 3.0).
The most basic exercises for gaining more control over anything—including mass—involve merely increasing our awareness of the thing or condition.
Increasing our reality over a given topic gives us more understanding—the result of increasing any one vertex of the A-R-C triangle (affinity, reality, communication). Understanding or knowledge can lead to control or power over a given thing or condition.
Imagine, for instance, the amount of mass required to create sufficient gravity so that any baseball we throw would never be able to escape, even if we were a professional baseball pitcher. First of all, we would need to know the maximum velocity of a thrown baseball. Next, we would need to know the escape velocity of an asteroid of a given mass. When we find an asteroid with an escape velocity equal to the speed of a fast ball thrown by a baseball pitcher, then the human could just barely throw fast enough to have the baseball leave and never come back. A more massive asteroid would prevent the baseball from ever leaving, though the ball could go into orbit about the tiny planetoid.
Besides this mental exercise, we could also play with actual objects to increase our understanding of mass.
Pick up a feather or tiny piece of paper. Consider how “heavy” is this object. Pick up a heavier object, like a metal ball bearing or fisherman’s lead sinker. Now, hold the feather or piece of paper in one hand, and the metal object in the other. Let both drop to the floor. Naturally, the feather or piece of paper takes longer, because of air resistance. On an airless world, like the Moon, or Earth without an atmosphere, both the paper or feather and the metal object would hit the floor at about the same time, if perfectly released at the same time.
Go to the corner of your house or apartment building and grab the corner with both hands. Lift the building off of its foundation. Hmm-mm! Well, that didn’t work. And the reason is simple: Our bodies were not built to lift that much mass in a gravitational field like that of Earth. And even if we had the strength, we would not necessarily have the leverage to accomplish the task. The center of mass of the building would be beyond arm’s reach.
With a friend to handle the controls of a car, have them let go of the hand brake, put the car in neutral, and while the vehicle is on level ground and not interfering with traffic, have yourself push the vehicle to make it move. Most of the resistance you experience comes from the mass of the vehicle, but a large part of the difficulty comes from the friction of the tires on the road and bearings within the axles.
If the car were floating in space, and you had a surface upon which to stand, you could throw the car. Vacuum offers zero resistance. The only resistance would be from the inertia of the car. The end result, however, would include the surface upon which you were standing moving in the opposite direction from the car. And if your toss were not entirely linear, but at an angle around your own body’s center of mass, you might find yourself tumbling through space near the surface upon which you were standing, and the car spinning through empty space in the opposite direction.
Whenever you are studying something—especially a complex relationship, like those we frequently find in science—it frequently helps to use several pieces of matter to demonstrate the relationship. For instance, a baseball might represent Earth, while a tiny toy car might represent a spaceship in orbit. Using “mass” this way can help take intellectual ideas and make them more real. This adds “mass” to conceptual ideas. This effect has proven helpful in education, where students demonstrate their understanding of the principles they are learning.
Benefits From Mass Exercises
[image error]Sometimes we feel like a ghost of our former self, requiring an infusion of “mass.” Photo: #984170_1920 Free-Photos (CC0) Pixabay.
Playing with mass increases our understanding of physical objects, and their apparent reality. This proves to be the “doorway” to controlling objects or masses. This, of course, is on a physical and intellectual level. But it can also lead to a spiritual understanding of physical matter.
Whenever a person is overwhelmed, or has experienced too much “theory” in the classroom, acquiring “mass” can help restore mental equanimity. Hugging your significant other, or hugging a pillow can help. Eating a satisfying meal can also do this. Or you can do a strenuous physical activity, like running, hiking or weight-lifting.
Sometimes, unresolved mental issues—upset, confusion, frustration and the like—can create a condition that some people call “mental mass.” The person looks as though they are carrying a heavy weight on their shoulders—or even their heads. Alleviating this mental mass can be accomplished by doing the physical activities in the previous paragraph, or by joining in an activity to help someone else. The objective is to take attention off of the egoistic self and the stuck mental pictures that are making the individual miserable.
Mass Gratitude Affirmations
Here are a few Mass Gratitude Affirmations. I encourage you to create a few of your own.
I feel so incredibly grateful that I have a body, the clothes it wears and the home in which it lives.
I feel comfortably grateful for having the things I’ve acquired which help make my life more enjoyable.
I feel so humbly grateful that my abundance of possessions allows me to share more with others to make their lives more enjoyable.
Prosperity Engine Progress
[image error]Like a wormhole in space, sometimes it seems our intentions become lost in a black hole, only to end up on the wrong side of the universe. Image: #2514312_1920 Genty (CC0) Pixabay.
Power without control can create some interesting damage. Yesterday’s article included the Virgo Supercluster Emperor Identity—an exercise of the mind and imagination for various scales of energy or prosperity.
Part of my own attention became fixed on a desire to speed up the building of my own prosperity engine, with the corollary effect of fixing my attention on relative scarcity and hardship. When we are not aware of such attention, we get manifestation far more easily.
This morning, I had funds to transfer from America to the Philippines where I currently live. This minor chore usually occurs once a week and only takes 4–5 minutes, at most. Today, the process of sending the money from one location, to an interim bank, to its final destination, encountered a big “bump” in the road.
Usually, the transfer from the American location to the interim bank took half a second, and rarely more than 5 seconds. About seven years ago, the hiccup was bad enough that the money was “lost” in transit for an entire month. The American source representative told me that they would simply have to wait for a month for the funds to be declared “missing” and automatically returned to the American source.
Today, I knew better. For instance, I started with the understanding that I am 100% responsible for everything in my life. It didn’t matter what things “looked like”—I was the one responsible. Just think about that for a moment! Feel how empowering that idea truly is.
I told my niece, Niña, about the delay and the fact that I was 100% responsible. She’s a senior in high school and merely looked at me like, “Can I go, now?”
After two hours, the money still had not appeared at the interim bank. I felt a touch of panic, remembering the full month that funds had been lost seven years ago, but then reasserted the knowledge that I am 100% responsible.
Now, if you’ve read all of this series on the Prosperity Engine, you might remember the bit about “importance” slowing down or clogging the channel for manifesting the desired object or condition. So, I relaxed. I took my conscious awareness off of the money entirely. I got back to writing this article, immersing myself in all its fun details.
My wife had come to me several times, asking, “Has it arrived, yet?” I merely had smiled, checked, found it had not arrived, and had let her know, saying, “I’ll check again in a little bit.”
The last hour went by without any requests and me lost in my writing, happily putting all of my awareness on the task, while my attention slipped into the mode of 100% responsibility.
When finally my wife came to me again, the money had finally made it.
All urgency or “importance” had been removed. The derailed attention from inadvertent scarcity had been restored to the forward-facing direction of prosperity.
Now, the work ahead will be a matter of building a new habit—one which comfortably stays aware of everything that goes into the subconscious, alerting the conscious mind of negative feelings, like the scarcity that had created today’s excitement, and restoring the desired feelings.
Coming Up Next
Tomorrow, we wrap up our look at the physical elements or dimensions which define how science measures nature—the four elements of physical science—space, time, energy and mass. We look at how all of these are interrelated to oppose the nature of God. So, our free will is given a rather black-and-white choice—spirit or physicality.
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Reference:
Buongiorno, Caitlyn. (2020:0427). How much space does a black hole take up? Retrieved on 2020:0925 from https://astronomy.com/news/2020/04/how-much-space-does-a-black-hole-take-up
