In search of the miraculous

plants, this is twenty-four hours.

Besides this, sleep and waking are breath, as for instance plants when asleep, that is, at night, exhale, and when awake, that is, by day, inhale;

in exactly the same way for all mammals as well as for man there is a difference in the absorption of oxygen and CO₂ by night and day, in sleep and waking.'

Reasoning in this way I arranged the periods of breath and of sleep and waking in the following way:

Microcosmos breath _{3 seconds}

sleep and waking 24 hours

Tritocosmos _brea_th 24 hours

sleep and waking ?

table 5

I obtained a simple 'rule of three.' By dividing 24 hours by 3 seconds I got 28, 800. By dividing 28, 800 (days and nights) by 365 I got within a small fraction 79 years. This interested me. Seventy-nine years, continuing the former reasoning, made up the sleep and waking of 'organic life.' This did not correspond to anything that I could think of in organic life, but it represented the life of man.

'Could one not continue the parallel further?' I asked myself. I arranged the figures I had obtained in the following way:

Microcosmos Man

Breath: 3 secs.

Day and Night: 24 hours

Life: 79 years

Tritocosmos Organic Life

Breath: 24 hours

Mesocosmos Earth Breath: 79 years

Day and Night: 79 years

table 6

Again 79 years meant nothing in the life of the earth. I thereupon multiplied 79 years by 28, 800 and got a little less than two and a half million years. By multiplying 2, 500, 000 years by 30, 000 for shortness, I got a number of eleven figures, 75, 000, 000, 000 years. This figure should signify the duration of life of the earth. So far these figures appear logically possible;

two and a half million years for organic life and seventy-five milliards of years for the earth.

'But then there are cosmoses lower than man,' I said to myself. 'Let us try to see in what relation they will stand to this.'

I decided to take two cosmoses on the left (on the diagram) from the Microcosmos, understanding by them first, comparatively large microscopic cells, and then the smallest (admissible), almost invisible cells.

Such a division of cells into two categories cannot be said to have been definitely accepted by science. But if we think of dimensions within the 'micro-world,' then it is impossible not to admit that this world consists of two worlds as distinct in themselves as is the world of people and the world of comparatively large micro­organisms and cells. I got the following picture:

Small Large Micro- Organic Life Earth Cells Cells cosmos

Breath

Day and Night Life

(Man)

- - 3 secs. 24 hours ^{79 yrs.}

- 3 secs. ²⁴ hours 79 yrs. 2.5 mn. yrs.

3 secs 24 h_ours 79 years 2.5 mn. yrs. 75 milliard yrs.

TABLE 7

This was coming out very interestingly. Twenty-four hours made up the period of life of the cell. And although the period of life of individual cells can in no way be considered as established, many investigators have arrived at the fact that for a specialized cell such as a cell of the human organism the period of life appears to be precisely 24 hours. The breath of the cell equals 3 seconds. This told me nothing. But the 3 seconds of life of the small cell told me a great deal and it indicated above all why it is so difficult to see these cells, although from their size they should be ac­cessible to vision in a good microscope.

I tried further to see what would be obtained if 'breath,' that is, 3 seconds, were divided by 30, 000. One ten-thousandth part of a second was obtained. The period of duration of an electric spark and at the same time the period of the shortest visual impression. For convenience in calculating and for clarity I took 30, 000 instead of 28, 800. Four periods appeared to be connected with, or separated from, one another by one and the same coefficient of 30, 000—the shortest visual impression, breath or the period of inhalation and exhalation, the period of sleep and waking, and the average maximum of life. At the same time each of these periods denoted a corresponding but lower period in a higher cosmos and a corresponding higher period in a lower cosmos. Without as yet drawing any conclusions I tried to make a fuller table, that is, to bring into it all the cosmoses and to add two more of the lower ones, the first of which I called the 'molecule' and the second the 'electron.' Then, again for clarity when multiplying by 30, 000, I took only round numbers and only two coefficients, 3 and 9; thus 2, 400, 000 I took as 3, 000, 000; 72, 000, 000, 000 I took as 90, 000, 000, 000; and 79 as 80, and so on.

I obtained the following table:

MICRO-

SMALL LARGE COSMOS ELECTRON MOLECULE CELLS CELLS (Man)

TRITO- MESO- DEUTERO- MACRO- AYO- PROTO- COSMOS COSMOS COSMOS COSMOS COSMOS COSMOS