A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

We identify these different vibrating energy levels as individual colours and intensities of light. These in turn
are what form the images detected at the back of our eyes by our retinas and sent as electrical messages to our
brain. Our brain then determines all aspects of what we are looking at so that we can make ‘visual sense’ of
the world around us. This is how we see and understand objects in our environment, a process which further
allows us to make decisions on how to interact with the reality of which we are visually conscious. The same
general process applies to the bio-electrical signals received by our brains from all our other senses as well.
This, however, is a separate and very big subject area, so we will stop here and return to considering atomic
structure. The important thing is that electrons, when forced by the application of some form of external energy,
can briefly change the shell they are in and emit a photon of light that has an energy level directly associated
with the properties of the element that the photon came from. Energetic photons are what we detect as heat and
light of different colours, plus other forms of radiation that we will touch on shortly. At this point, I will expand
a little on my reference to ‘vibrating energy’.
54 | Some basic theory that will help
What I intend by my use of the word ‘vibrating’ is to
introduce the idea of ‘frequency’ or ‘oscillation’, as
it is sometimes referred to. Both these terms are very
common, very important, and closely related. This
is where a physical object or some force, changes
(or cycles) back and forth between one value and
another, repeatedly (alternately) and usually at a
steady rate.
The energy level of mains electricity in our homes does this at either 50 or 60 times per second. This is considered
to be a very low frequency in the grand scale of frequencies that exist in the universe, for as we will see when we
cover the idea of the Electro-Magnetic Spectrum, frequencies go to very much higher levels indeed. We should
clearly establish a couple of things here:
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Positive
Zero Time
Negative
One Cycle
The idea of one ‘cycle’ © author
In a stable situation, electrons have a particular frequency associated with them that represents the energy
level of the shell in which they orbit their nucleus.
When electrons are forced to move between one shell and another, and depending whether the move is
to a lower or higher energy shell, they emit or absorb a photon that has a frequency/energy relationship
determined by the difference between the shells involved.
There is much more that could be said about atoms, how they behave, how they are influenced and how they
can be combined, but to suit the level of this book, this amount of information is enough.