🌊 The Universe of Vibrations

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From Léon Denis — In the Invisible

🌌 Everything Vibrates in the Universe

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All manifestations of nature and life can be summarised as vibrations — more or less rapid and extensive, according to the causes that produce them. Everything vibrates in the universe: sound, light, heat, electricity, magnetism, chemical rays, cathode rays, radio waves… These are only the various modes of undulation and vibration of universal force — the successive degrees that constitute, as a whole, the ascending scale of energy manifestations.

📏 The Scale of Vibrations

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These degrees are very far apart from each other. Sound travels 340 metres per second; light, in the same time, crosses 300,000 kilometres; electricity propagates at a speed that seems incalculable to us.

Our physical senses, however, cannot perceive all modes of vibration. In the field of optics alone, we know that light waves only impress our retina within the limits of the seven colours of the prism, from red to violet. Beyond or below these colours, solar radiations escape our sight — they are called dark rays.

🧠 The Insufficiency of the Senses

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Between the limit of sounds (from 24 to 60,000 vibrations per second) and the sensation of heat (measured in billions of vibrations), we perceive nothing. The same applies between heat and light, which corresponds on average to 500 trillion vibrations per second.¹

In this stupendous ascent, our senses represent only a few widely spaced floors — stations placed at great distances from each other on an endless road. Between these various stages, there are for us true chasms. But would not these chasms, apparently empty and obscure, be inhabited by beings endowed with senses more subtle or more numerous than ours?

🌿 The Continuity of Life

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It would make little sense to believe in emptiness, because everything in nature follows on, is connected and unfolds, from link to link, through gradual transitions. Nowhere is there a sudden jump, a void, a hiatus. What emerges from these considerations is simply the insufficiency of our organism — too limited to perceive all modes of energy.

Our knowledge of the universe is restricted or expanded according to the number and subtlety of our senses. Many forms of life escape us. But let a new sense be added to ours — and immediately the invisible is revealed, the emptiness is populated, dark insensitivity gains life.

¹ The physicist W. Crookes established a classification according to which sound vibrations are distributed from the 5th to the 15th degree. Electricity and magnetism range from the 20th to the 35th degree. From 45 to 50, we find heat and light. Beyond the 58th degree, cathodic undulations appear. In the intervals, vast regions of energy remain unexplored, inaccessible to our senses.