Spencer Heath Archive

Item 124

Pencil by Heath on lined, notebook paper along with Item 123, both together torn in half and discarded by Heath, retrieved by Spencer MacCallum.

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THE UNIVERSE AS ENERGY AND ACTION

 

     Modern science demonstrates that not matter but energy in action is the universal reality — that all creation, all being, is the organization of energy (mass or force and motion or distance) into action — that actuality is action, being is doing.

     All energy is discontinuous in action — composed fundamentally of discrete quantities, or quanta, of mass and motion in successive discrete periods or frequencies of action between discontinuities. This procedure of energy into action — into rhythmic frequencies of repetition — thus constitutes time. The unit of action, therefore is always an involvement of discrete quantities of mass, motion and time. These units of mass, motion and time — of force, distance and frequency — are highly (perhaps infinitely) variable, but their product in any particular action or event is always a definite least quantity or quantum of action or (usually) some whole multiple thereof.

Organization of Energy

Man is himself a highly differentiated complex organization of the Cosmic energy. Being such, all his relationships, all his experience, all his reactions, are to energy in other organized forms

     Every organization of energy, like every energy wave, has its frequency or term — its time of action. Whether its mass and motion be small or large, simple or complex, it has its two phases, its integration and disintegration, growth and decay. It may take the form of a single wave or any number of them. As such, it is an integration and disintegration of mass and motion and time into an action or event. A period of time is involved, and the repetitions of this period in a succession of actions or events constitutes the frequency of the organization or event.

     There are no known limits to the length of period or range of frequency of energy waves, nor to the frequency of the structures or __________. The length of the period may be indefinitely small or large, and its frequency correspondingly high or low.

     The organization of a wave or event is in three (and only three) measurable aspects known as mass, motion and time. When these aspects are measured and numbers thereby assigned to them, these numbers are the dimensions of the wave as an action or event. From this it follows that unless or until some fourth measurable aspect of an action or event is discerned — other than those of mass, motion and time — there will be no experience of any fourth or other aspect of energy as actions or events. There will be, of course, no unit for the measurement of any undiscovered fourth or other aspect and hence no numbers as fourth or other dimensions of actions or events as the objective subject-matter, the external reality of human experience.

     A wave or other integration and disintegration of energy as an action or event has, then, three measurable aspects and thus three dimensions — a mass or force dimension, a motion, length or directional dimension and a time, period or frequency dimension. These three dimensions together make up the magnitude, the whole quantitative character or manifestation of the wave action or event.

     In fundamental theoretical sciences this over-all dimension is expressed usually as a certain number of erg-seconds. In engineering or applied science it is a given number of kilowatt-hours.

 

     Every simple action or event (and presumably every complex one) has a single over-all dimension or magnitude. And this magnitude is the union of its three fundamental dimensions of mass, motion and time. But the magnitude of an action or event is not dependent on its kind, character or form. Its character and form may be widely transformed without any change in its total magnitude; and conversely, its total magnitude may be increased or diminished without any change in its character and form