In Search of the Miraculous

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

(Man)

Breath

-

-

3 secs.

24 hours

79 yrs.

Day and Night -

3 secs.

24 hours

79 yrs.

2.5 mn. yrs.

Life

3 secs 24 hours

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:

This table at once aroused in me very many thoughts. Whether it was possible to

look upon it as correct and as defining exactly the relation of one cosmos to another I

was as yet unable to say. The coefficient 30, 000 seemed too big. But at the same time

I remembered that the relation of one cosmos to another is "as zero to infinity." And in the presence of such a relation no coefficient could be too big. 'The relation of zero to infinity" was the relation of magnitudes of different dimensions.

G. said that every cosmos was three-dimensional for itself. This meant that the next

cosmos above it was four-dimensional for it and the next cosmos below it—twodimensional. The next one above that—five-dimensional, and the next one lower—

one-dimensional. One cosmos in relation to another is a magnitude of a greater or

smaller number of dimensions. But there could only be six dimensions or, with zero,

seven, and by this table eleven cosmoses were obtained. At the first glance this

seemed strange, but only at the first glance, because as soon as I took into account the

period of existence of any cosmos in relation to higher cosmoses, the lower cosmoses

disappeared long before reaching the seventh dimension. Take for example man in

relation to the sun. The sun appeared as the fourth cosmos in relation to man, taking

man as the first cosmos, but man's long life, eighty years, was equal in time to one

electric spark for the sun, one shortest possible visual impression.

I tried to remember everything that G. had said about cosmoses.