54 WHAT IS LIFE ? 



Electricity Electricity is the motion of Ether. If the 

 process is inverse, then Ether radiates or travels to the 

 atoms or molecules, the result of the so-called chemical 

 reaction. 



Thirdly, Ether is ever-present. It is always in 

 motion. Its atoms are rigid. 



The diagram fig. 5 illustrates the various reactions, 

 atomic or molecular, matter passes through. It must 

 be remembered that in the formula here given, no 

 attempt is made to give real numbers of atoms of 

 Ether, nor the motion of Ether, which operates upon 

 the atom or molecule. 1 It is best to fix the mind upon 

 one specific species of molecule. We select the water 

 molecule. Now, we venture to assert that experiments 

 clearly show the following to be the fact. 



We must recollect that we are dealing in the illus- 

 tration with vastly minute objects water molecules, 

 and the fluid Ether. This fluid we have shown can be 

 seen in mass by the naked eye, 2 and its antigravitating 

 power demonstrated. 



Eig. A shows the, molecules in the crystalline form 

 three molecules are shown. It is not pretended that 

 the crystal is of the form represented. The illustration 

 only means to convey the idea that the molecule is not 

 spherical. In this condition the molecule is built up of 

 three objects, two of which are inside the third three 

 atoms two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. It 

 also has in its interior, say, one unit of Ether. What 

 the unit represents we do not know, and probably will 

 never know. This is the most dense condition of water 



1 This latter is fully explained in the author's work, " What is 

 Heat?" 



2 See " What is Heat ? " page 142. 



