Storehouse of Qi and Prana
By Jay Alfred
September 2010
(Credit: SOHO)
H P Blavatsky, a leading metaphysicist of the nineteenth century, observed that “the real Sun” was hidden behind the visible Sun. What was this “real Sun” she was referring to? An invisible Sun that we could not see? She revealed that this invisible Sun was “...the storehouse of vital force” and from it “issue those life-currents which thrill through space, as through the organisms of every living thing on Earth – the real Sun being hidden behind the visible Sun and generating the vital fluid which circulates throughout our [Solar] System in a ten year cycle.” The vital force that Blavatsky is referring to has been called “qi” by the Chinese and “prana” by the Indians. It is generally accepted in the metaphysical literature that qi and prana emanate from the Sun and interact weakly (or in subtle ways) with ordinary matter, just like dark matter. According to the author (Our Invisible Bodies, 2006), qi and prana are composed of dark matter particles. If so, this invisible Sun that Blavatsky was referring to was a Sun composed of dark matter.
Dark matter is invisible matter that makes up more than 80 percent of the matter in the universe and does not interact with ordinary electromagnetic forces. In terms of the known forces (within the Standard Model of particle physics), it only interacts with the gravitational and weak forces. There is five times more dark matter than ordinary matter in the Universe. However, it is completely invisible to most human eyes and every kind of scientific instrument we have so far devised. Physicists only know it’s there because of its gravitational effects on ordinary matter.
Galaxies rotate faster without flying apart because of the strong gravitational forces generated by dark matter. Dark matter is also responsible for much of the large-scale structure in the universe. Dark matter particles and an equal number of anti-dark matter particles are thought to exist. However, the author’s Dark Plasma Theory, published in 2006, assumes a matter-anti-matter asymmetry in the vicinity of the Earth and Solar System. If this is so then dark matter particles can accumulate in the Sun and in the Earth by gravitational capture. There should be a large storehouse of dark matter particles within the visible Sun.
Now scientists are coming to the same conclusion. Eugenie Reich of New Scientist asked in 2010 “Is dark matter lurking at the centre of our bright Sun?”. Perhaps Blavatsky already had the answer about a century ago. Blavatsky’s “real [invisible] Sun” is an obvious reference to a Sun which is ordinarily invisible to most of us and our scientific instruments. In the current scientific context, we should interpret this as a Sun composed of dark matter.
If that is so, the next question is: Is there scientific evidence that there is dark matter in the Sun? If the answer is “yes” then we will need to conclude that there is scientific evidence that the Sun harbors and issues dark qi and prana particles throughout the Solar System - not only to Earth but to all the other planets. This evidence will suggest that there is indeed an invisible Sun behind the visible Sun, just as Blavatsky claimed a century ago.
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE for an INVISIBLE SUN
Even as far back as 2001, researchers from the University of Oxford believed that the Sun harbored a vast reservoir of dark matter particles. Astrophysicists Ilidio Lopes and Joe Silk argued that passing dark matter particles would be captured by gravitational fields of massive bodies like the Sun. More recently Mads Frandsen and Subir Sarkar of the University of Oxford came to the same conclusion. “The Sun has been whizzing around the galaxy for 5 billion years, sweeping up all the dark matter as it goes,” It is estimated that the visible Sun contains about 2% to 5% of the mass of the Sun in the form of dark matter (Kardashev et al, 2005). Sarkar said. Recent scientific research papers are beginning to support the view that the Sun is indeed accumulating vast amounts of dark matter particles, generating what is effectively an invisible Sun growing inside the visible Sun. The scientific evidence is discussed below.
1. The Sun is moving too fast!
The Sun is orbiting the galaxy at about 220 kilometers per second when it should be going only at 160 kilometers per second, based on the visible mass of the galaxy in the solar neighborhood. This suggests that the Sun is being accelerated under the gravitational influence of a huge mass of invisible dark matter, which forms a halo around the galaxy.
Figure 1 : The Sun is moving about 60 km/sec faster than without dark matter
2. The orbit of the Earth is shrinking
Xu and Siegel, from the University of Arizona, estimated the mass of dark matter within the Solar System (between 0.2 AU and 100 AU) to be about 1.07 x 1020 kg (or 1.78 x 10-5 the Earth’s mass). (AU=Astronomical Unit. This is a unit equal to the mean distance of the Earth from the Sun.) They have also estimated that during its journey around the galaxy over the past 4.6 billion years, the Solar System has waded through 203 solar masses of dark matter. That’s a lot of dark matter!
A team of Italian researchers from the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Pisa, led by Lorenzo Iorio, believes that the density of dark matter would most likely be larger around the most massive bodies, such as black holes and stars. It then logically follows, say the researchers, that the Sun also accumulates large amounts of dark matter as it rushes through the dark matter halo of our galaxy, the Milky Way. They believe that the growing storehouse of dark matter in the Sun will alter the orbits of planets in the Solar System, including the Earth’s. The team estimates that as dark matter accretes in the Sun over the next 4.6 billion years, at the same rate as in the past, the orbit of the Earth will shrink about 0.2 to 0.5 AU. There is, in fact, observational evidence for this shrinkage (Standish, 2005; Pitjeva, 2005).
3. The Sun is cooling-off too fast
According to Sarkar and Frandsen, assuming a matter-anti-matter asymmetry in the Solar System and lighter dark matter particles, dark matter captured by the Sun will not annihilate after gravitational capture. It would build up in the Sun and alter how heat moves inside it in a way that would be observable from Earth. Ordinary photons and electrons bounce off each other on their way from the Sun’s interior to its surface, so light and heat can take billions of years to escape. But because dark matter particles ignore all the ordinary matter inside the Sun, they have fewer obstacles in their way and can therefore transport heat more efficiently to the surface. Sensitive observations of sound waves on the Sun’s surface reveal that the Sun indeed has a much easier time transporting heat from its interior to its surface than what standard models predict. While this will not significantly affect the Sun's overall temperature, a cool core sheds new light on the way heat is distributed and transported within the Sun. The buildup of dark matter in the Sun could therefore explain and solve a pressing problem in solar physics, called the “solar composition problem”.
Separately, Stephen West of Royal Holloway and his colleagues at the University of London explored what would happen if light dark matter particles existed within the Sun. Their simulations show that gravity would suck such dark particles to the centre of the Sun, where they would absorb heat. Some of these dark matter particles would then carry off this heat from the core to the surface, decreasing the core temperature, confirming the work published by Sarkar and Frandsen.
4. Convective boundary too far out based on Current Model
Sarkar and Frandsen believe their solar dark matter particle also resolves another problem. Heat energy is transported in the Sun by conduction and radiation around the core; and by convection nearer to the surface. The position of the so-called “convective boundary” between these two regions is disputed. Currently, simulations based on the Sun's composition suggest that the convective boundary is further out than is indicated by sound waves detected on the surface of the Sun, which are affected by the position of this boundary. Sarkar and Frandsen claim that if dark matter particles are included in these simulations, it will bring this boundary inwards, resulting in closer agreement between simulations and observations.
5. Too few Neutrinos from the Sun
Sarkar and Frandsen also calculated that if the Sun was full of dark matter, as suspected, this would reduce the flux of neutrinos from the Sun by a few percent. This is because dark matter particles would absorb energy, reducing the rate of fusion reactions that produce neutrinos. The predicted small decrease in the low energy neutrino fluxes can be tested and will be measurable by the Italian Borexino and Canadian SNO+ experiments, now under way.
Implications
If there is a large dark matter ocean in the Sun, as certain scientists believe, it is a logical next step to expect dark matter particles captured by the Sun from various sources to be also blown out of the Sun in its solar wind – just like ordinary matter particles – in the form of plasma. Since this solar wind is composed of dark matter particles, it is a dark plasma wind. It is this plasma wind that Blavatsky described as “life currents which thrill though space”. There is much evidence in the metaphysical literature that the solar wind also carries with it dark matter particles, often described as energetic globules by various metaphysicists of the nineteenth and twentieth century. Blavatsky classified them as high energy “physical-etheric” particles. According to Dark Plasma Theory, these self interacting dark matter particles carry a dark charge, not the ordinary electromagnetic charge.
It states in the metaphysical literature (including the Taoist and Hindu literature) that qi and prana emanate from the Sun. In Chinese culture (under the study of ‘feng-shui’) it is “auspicious” for the door of a Chinese home to face the East (in the direction of sunrise). Qigong practitioners face the Sun and other stars during their practice. Both the Sun and stars have significant and pervasive magnetic fields and plasma (including dark plasma) winds that blow out both ordinary and dark matter particles from their hot interiors. Standing in front of the Sun would therefore be like standing in front of an electric fan blowing out qi or prana.
Conclusion
Blavatsky’s invisible Sun may soon be detected by scientists working at various multi-million dollar installations underground to directly detect dark matter particles from the Sun. Although this discovery will be one of the most important discoveries in the history of human civilization, it will pale in comparison with the discovery that logically follows – that every human being also has an invisible bioplasma body composed of dark matter – our own invisible bodies.
References
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[12] Credit for Figure 1: http://www.butler.edu/physics/as102/homework/homework11/Hwk11sol.html (accessed 22 November 2008)
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