Occult Chemistry @ 79
clearly depicted with six quarks, each of which showed three ultimate
physical atoms for a total of eighteen-described by them as the basic
building blocks of nature. But why eighteen instead of the nine ome-
gons that appeared in Phillips's mathematical model? Why the dou-
bling effect in an otherwise remarkable match?
For many long hours Phillips puzzled over the discrepancy until he
realized that what the theosophists might have been viewing was a di-
proton, normally an unstable and short-lived amalgam of two hydro-
gen nuclei. But to account for how the theosophists could have come
upon such an anomaly required more searching. Finally Phillips came
up with a solution based on the modern theory of quantum physics-
unknown to the theosophists at the turn of the century-of a dynamic
interplay between observer and observed. The actual act of capturing
atoms for observation and slowing down their "wild gyrations" must
have profoundly disturbed them. This interplay, Phillips reasoned,
must have released the tightly bound quarks and omegons from the
nuclei of two atoms and merged them into a single chaotic cloud, anal-
ogous to extremely hot plasma, which then condensed into the double
nucleus observed. In support of the hypothesis, Dr. Smith noted that
normally this could be done only at exceedingly high temperatures
such as those postulated to have been prevalent 10" seconds after the
so-called Big Bang. But "cold plasma," he pointed out, can also exist:
in it the strong forces between omegons come back into play, causing
them to recombine and condense into a new stable grouping: the
theosophists' double-imaged atoms.
Rewardingly, once this doubling-up effect was taken into account,
every other element described and illustrated by the theosophists in
Occult Chemistry, including compounds and crystals, fell into its proper
place in the periodic table with the requisite number of constituent
particles. With their siddhi powers, the theosophists had accurately de-
scribed every known element years before the physicists and in a few
cases even before these elements were scientifically discovered.
Not only were the theosophists vindicated, so was Phillips. With
deserved satisfaction, and no fear of rebuttal, he could categorically