The Orb
PREFACE
This book is a qualitative description of the mode of operation of everything inanimate in the world, from atomic nucleus to galactic universe. It started many years ago as an attempt to decipher the mechanism of gravity. In that endeavor, it gradually became evident that to reach that goal the detailed structure, composition and physiology of everything else also had to be understood.
In following the chains of logic through their almost interminable convolutions I gradually found that many modern concepts had to be traced back to their origins, and then pressed even further back, into their premises. Many of those premises, it developed, had to be given up and denied. Indeed, so intertwined and dependently inter-related are the many diverse theories of modern science, that it slowly became evident that a thread of error permeates all the branches of the existing tree of knowledge. The very words used were found to possess erroneous implications and even inherent contradictions. In time, new modes of thinking developed, without words. Later, to communicate the conclusions, old words had to be redefined, discarded concepts had to be polished up and revived, existing concepts had to be destroyed (if only to be rebuilt again with slight but enormous changes), and some new words had to be invented.
This is not an easy book to read. Part I deliberately exposes many inconsistencies of existing theory, but in so doing assumes the appearance of confusion. It is the theories that are confused, not the presentation. Press on. Part I opens the mind for the rest of the book, by demonstrating some of the many contradictions, inconsistencies and errors of logic of existing theories. Subsequent Portions of the book introduce concepts which depend for justification on later parts, but which are the bases from which those other parts develop.
It happens, therefore, that the more sophisticated you are in the teachings of presently accepted scientific theory, the more difficult it will be to continue through the first fourth, or half of the book. On the other hand, the more learned the reader, the more he may appreciate the later portions.
All in all, this is a highly interconnected and interdependent set of concepts. No one part can be fully understood until all of it has been finished. The reader's patient indulgence is urgently requested. The major intellectual effort required to complete the book should be most adequately rewarding.
November 2, 1964
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