Free Mesopotamia - The Redeemer by Yehuda Israely, Dor Raveh Page B

genius comes along and reveals
another hidden connection between the phenomena. Newton wasn't the
first, but I can start the explanation with him so that you can
understand the rest of it, which is more complicated".
    "I'm listening." He was indeed
listening, but found it difficult to concentrate. He tried to get
over his frustration at his situation, and returned his attention
to the woman in front of him. She spoke slowly and clearly. He
concentrated on her lips and saw how each word rolled out.
    "One type of continuity is the
hidden unity that in fact exists in principles which seem to have
no connection between them".
    "What do you mean?" He asked.
    "There seems to be no connection
between the principle of gravity and the principle of motion.
Gravity, the gravitational pull that causes a moon to drift in
orbit around a planet, is determined by three factors: The mass of
the planet and of the moon, the distance between them, and their
motion. Assuming the moon's mass is constant, the faster the moon
moves in its orbit around the planet, the smaller the gravitational
pull of the planet on the moon. That's the centrifugal force".
    "So"?
    "So motion and gravity are two
sides of the same coin".
    "I see. I think." As soon as he
succeeded in processing the information, things started to make
sense in his head. There was a ring of familiarity to the
principles she was talking about, or the names of the scientists.
He felt like it was a refresher talk, even though everything seemed
new.
    "In the same way, James Clarke
Maxwell discovered electromagnetic force," she continued. "He
discovered that electricity and magnetism are just two forms of the
same phenomenon".
    "I'm not sure I understand".
    "Let me explain the whole thing to
you and then you'll get the idea".
    "Okay, go on".
    Cosmology's next genius was Albert
Einstein. Before Einstein, it was thought that time was a constant
which had no connection to dimensions or other forces. Einstein
discovered that time and space are two sides of the same coin. In
the same way that ice and water are two forms of the same material,
and just as Newton showed that gravitational pull and inertia are
two aspects of the same phenomenon, the same thing applies to time
and space. The faster an object travels a large distance, the less
time it takes for it to travel that distance. At the speed of
light, time stands still".
    Even if he had known it in the past
and forgotten, this was inconceivable. He understood that ice and
water, being interchangeable, are two faces of the same phenomenon,
but time and space? He felt dizzy.
    Sophia noticed. "You're tired.
We'll continue at another time".
    "I want to know," he insisted.
    "Are you sure"?
    "Yes"!
    "Einstein also showed that matter
and energy are two sides of the same phenomenon. The atom bombs
that destroyed the Earth in the Human-Gods Wars turned matter into
devastating energy".
    "Which wars?" He asked.
    "It's not important right now." Her
face sobered. "We'll get back to it at some point. Have you had
enough for now"? Sophia smiled understandingly. She knew it was a
lot to take in the first time.
    "I can go on." His head ached, but
he wanted to stay close to her.
    She stared at him as an unfamiliar
feeling washed over her like a wave. 'Who are you? Why did you come
to me? What is the cosmos trying to tell me through you?' she
thought. "Einstein showed in the end that gravity is the slope that
mass creates in space. Until then, it wasn't clear that different
phenomena in the universe are actually just different aspects of
the same thing. In Einstein's time it also became clear that
gravity and space are different aspects of one thing".
    "I think I understand," said the
stranger, but his expression was hesitant.
    "What did you understand"?
    "Einstein showed that time and
space are one, energy and matter are one, and gravity and space are
one. Einstein must have been the biggest genius of them all," he
said, and she smiled in approval.
    "Almost. We