01 |PREFACE

Foreword

It is a sad disappointment for a retired professional engineer to find out that his lifetime professional work was unnecessary and worthless. That is what happened to me when after nearly 40 years of engineering experiences, I came to the conclusion that we are living the last days of our industrial civilisation. In spite of an illusive public opinion, I must state that we are on the brink of a complete economic and industrial collapse, which is even desirable in order to save human life on our planet.
To support my strange and quasi tragical statement, I should first of all analyse the most crucial problem of our modern time.

The Pollution Problem

Nearly everybody is concerned about it! The number of environmentalists grows like mushrooms. Nevertheless, the whole movement looks like a chaos. Being split in numerous fractions, we are working like cogs in a system, and one cog does not understand what the other cog is doing. Nobody knows how the whole "machine" works.
Our ignorance is even more pronounced by asking if one kind of pollution is more or less dangerous than the other. Thus, let us ask from a number of environmentalists whether the nuclear technology is more or less dangerous than the acid rain. Their answers clearly show that they are or guessing or they are influenced by the fallacious promotion of the nuclear industry.
However, it would be easy and logical to introduce a general and basic statement in which we could classify all the different pollution and environmental problems.
With our excessive scientific and technological activities, we immoderately infringed on Nature's laws. The result is an imminent destruction of our ecosystem, our health and our life. This frightening scenario is caused partly by our greedy profit-making ambition and partly by our scientific ignorance.
It is evident that the only remedy would be to start a new way of life, much more in harmony with Nature. But to do so, first of all, we should know better Nature's laws and Nature's mechanism. In our atomic age, this is a new and crucial challenge for humankind, which was quasi neglected by our modern science. Accepting this challenge, I followed Goethe's dream by seeking the "light" from a scientific "obscurity".

The Atom and the Infinity

According to modern scientific thought, Nature's mechanism is transcendent and mysterious. Often, we can describe it only with mathematical deductions. I can not agree with this statement. The mystery was mainly introduced with the concept of "energy", which is a very clever human-invented idea indeed, but which does not exist in Nature.
Thus, if we say that electricity is a form of energy, then we explain one mystery with another mystery. As for the mathematical deductions, if their starting point is wrong, then the result is a scientific bluff or a scientific illusion. For me, to understand how Nature works is an eternal jigsaw puzzle, where we should often disregard or change some wrong pieces.
Everybody, who meditates about natural sciences, is sometimes more or less inspired by some geniuses of our history. I should admit that I, too, was strongly inspired by some ancient Greek and Roman philosophers (like Epicurus, Democritos, Lucretius). They firstly introduced the marvellous elementary unit which we call atom. Similarly, eminent philosophers like Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Isaac Newton (1642-1727) inspired me to endorse the concept of infinity as a really existing natural entity. Pascal's basic idea "Man is the centre between everything and nothing" introduced the concepts of Macrocosm and Microcosm. Each theory, which tries to limit the dimensions or the varieties of Nature-created units, fails sooner or later.
The existence of the atom, and only its existence, was definitely proved with the discovery of the radioactivity and nuclear power. Modern theories describe the atom with the help of the unreal "phantom" of energy. Consequently, its picture remains a dark mystery.
Considering the hypothesis of a working intelligent atom, we should admit that such theory belongs to the realm of the philosophy. This means that everybody has the right to believe it or not. I always sought after a missing link which would allow us to classify my intelligent living atom as the more realistic science of Physics. I found this link by introducing a special and not yet discovered atom, which in my writings is called "free atom". You can find complete description and analysis of this free atom in the texts which follow.
In this foreword, I only mention that numerous useful experiments can be realised which prove the existence of the free atom. Furthermore, the free atom clearly and simply explains the common phenomena of Physics (like electricity, heat, light, gravitation, radiation, etc.), and eliminates the paradoxical phantom of energy.
Today's spectacular remote-controlled spacecraft are trying to give us answers concerning the structure of our solar system. The "Voyager" research is a spectacular "show business" indeed. But instead of "answers", we always get more mysterious "questions", revealing our ignorance in natural sciences. The free atom (as an elementary component of the gravitational field) will give answers to the questions.
Science associated the concept of atoms with the chemical elements and classified them in the periodical table of the elements. In order to match my living atoms with the concept of infinity, we have to deal with a series of atoms which are displayed between infinite big and infinite little. In the texts, I use capital letters to signal the atoms, and a special index at the bottom (like _-1, ₀, ₊₁) shows their relative position in the Macrocosm or Microcosm. An index 0 at the top is the sign of a free atom (like _-1⁰, ₀⁰, ₊₁⁰). I use a special sign for rotating globes (like _-1, ₀, ₊₁). The plural form of these atoms and globes are indicated by suffix "-s".
My writings and articles are "mosaic" pieces dealing with different aspects of crucial environmental problems, and revealing some fallacious scientific theories. These erroneous theories are the driving forces behind our destructive technology.
I acknowledge that such unorthodox scientific ideas will not be accepted by the present scientific establishment or by scientists, who firmly believe in what they learned in the schools. I am talking against their interest. And in our materialistic world, people react angrily if their job or their profit is jeopardised.
However, I am glad to know that time is working for me. Gradually, always fewer people have confidence in a science and technology which discovered and marketed products like PCB, DDT, fluorocarbon, dioxin, furan, plutonium, tritium, thalidomide, etc. Consequently, it is possible that sometimes sincere environmentalists will understand and endorse such scientific ideas, and they will promote them by using a more attractive style than mine.
I will die with the hope that our children and grandchildren will have a tolerable quality of life in a biosphere which still could be saved from total destruction.

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