There are five scientists of Mars making this trip with us and they too
are in this compartment. They are turning on a screen, different than
any we have ever seen before, for the purpose of letting us see what
invisible dust particles in space actually look like. These are highly
magnified on this screen and we notice that they have a pattern to them
similar to the snowflake type, each one slightly different but all in
constant motion and reflecting light.
Now a spectrum screen is turned on and the scientists tell us that here
we have true color definitions of the many minerals within each one of
these tiny dust particles.
On another screen next to it is shown the magnetic currents of space.
We see on this screen the intensity of the magnetic force as these
dust particles are moved and rolled, much like waves in the ocean. The
scientists tell us that in another three seconds the magnetic pull will
be strong enough, so to speak, to turn this mass of particles over to
such a degree that they will reflect the iron part of them, which is in
a minute form in all dust particles, and this movement is constantly
going on without end throughout all space. Through the vastness of
infinity there is never absolute stillness.
We doubted this and we said so.
"Why do you doubt?" we were asked.
We said the speed of the ship itself would probably create such
activity.
So the ship's pilot was instructed to hover in space, without moving
either way. This he did. We have stood still in space for practically
half an hour while the particles keep moving on, passing the screen,
and the magnetic field on the magnetic screen does show an increase and
a decrease in its influence. It turns the particles as the increase
in its influence is strong enough to do so, and when it is not as
strong, the particles change to some other reflection. There have been
reflections of nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, minute in particle form as
the dust particles are minute themselves. But a mass of them would
reflect a large quantity. And so they have reflected all other minerals
known to science, all contained in each particle of dust.
This is very much like standing within a room and looking through a
window, watching snow fall outside. While all is apparently still the
snowflakes fall straight down but let a current of air enter and their
course changes. Should a whirling breeze start blowing, the flakes roll
in a circling mass but when a strong wind blows, even some of those
which have touched the ground are lifted again and blown around with
those that are still falling.
This is what we are seeing take place among the invisible dust
particles of space with the strength of the magnetic force acting much
as the breeze or wind.
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