Either that or the answer to the ultimate question is 42. Now if I could just figure out the ultimate question... )
Heh Elrond, reminds me- don't forget to bring supply of
towels to your 10,000 birthday [lol] , remember? the universe will be much safer
)
Hmmm, Elrond, does vacuum has temperature? and what about ether? does it exist? does it have temperature? here are few interesting things on ether that I've found:
• ether [>] Old theory for the medium once believed to conduct radio waves.
• Ether [>] Because light consists of waves, the belief that all waves must be channeled through a medium (as sound through air or water) led 19th century physicists to construct ether as the medium supporting the propagation of light. However, the Michelson-Morley Experiment showed that if ether existed it could not be observed. It also demonstrated, more generally, that the construct of a physical medium is inessential for research into communication processes. (Krippendorff)
• Aether [>] Aether, Ether (Greek) [from aitho shining, fire] The upper or purer air as opposed to aer, the lower air; the clear sky; the abode of the gods. In Classical antiquity it denoted primordial substance, Proteus or protyle, the unitary source both of all substances and energies, the mask of all kosmic phenomena. Often used loosely to embrace a domain which extends from the All-Father himself down to the atmosphere of our earth. Vergil speaks of "Jupiter omnipotens aether," and Cicero describes aether as the ultimate zone of heaven encircling, embracing, and permeating all things. At one time a member of the pantheon and object of veneration, at another the quest of the alchemist in search of the "absolute element" which would give him power over nature, and finally a hypothetical medium of science for conveying light waves.
Sometimes aether is used in translating the Sanskrit akasa, which has the same etymological and philosophical meaning. Here it is an element or principle coming after manas and kama and before the astral light and ether. Again, it is a high aspect of akasa, having itself also seven subordinate aspects. There are in kosmic space at least seven aethers or prakritis, which exist one within the other in a rising scale of spirituality. Collectively they may be called spirit-aether or akasa.
to be continue "Aether2"
[>]• Aether2
Generally in The Secret Doctrine it is the fifth kosmic element from below, a link between kosmic mind or mahat and the lower manifested world, the vehicle of the former and the parent of the latter. Looking at aether in a more general kosmic way, it is the field of activity of the kosmic Third Logos, Brahma-prakriti, and therefore the great womb of manifested being, the treasure house of all kosmic types, forth from which they flow at the opening of manifestation and back into which they will again be ingathered at the beginning of kosmic pralaya. It is in consequence the great mother-substance out of which all the hierarchies are built. It interpenetrates everything, lasting from the beginning of the universal manvantara to its end, and indeed, may be said to continue, in its most spiritualized form throughout kosmic pralaya as the seed-house or storehouse from which everything will flow into manifestation again when the new period of kosmic activity arrives. Considered as the cosmic mother of all things, aether in its highest feminine aspect is the same as the Vedic Aditi or the Hera or Juno of Greece and Rome. Thus in one sense it is also mulaprakriti, the generator or producer of the seeds of beginnings and things. The Old Testament refers to aether as the kosmic waters. In its highest parts it is mystically alaya (the kosmic spirit-soul) or what in Northern Buddhism is called svabhavat, more mystically adi-buddhi.
• Ethereal [>] Ethereal, Ethereality Used in an attempt to define states of matter more refined and less dense than familiar physical matter. The differences between the higher divisions of matter is analogous to the corresponding subdivisions of physical matter -- solid, liquid, gas, and fiery. Thus the characteristic of the solid is fixity of form, restriction of movement; that of liquid, mobility; of gas, expansibility; while the fiery element among other things is exempt from gravitation. The major divisions of matter must be graded on a somewhat analogous scale.
There is a clear distinction between
1) akasa;
2) the astral light; and
3) ether.
Akasa in its higher portions is pure spirit; the astral light is the seventh or highest division of our physical cosmic plane and may even in a sense be called the most subtle part of the terrestrial atmosphere; whereas ether is a material agent or stuff interpenetrating molecular matter, and is therefore even more gross than is the astral light. In one sense these three are the highest, the very low, and the lowest parts of spirit or akasa itself, the physical stuff or body of our plane being its lees or dregs.
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ether
\e"ther\ (?), n. [l. aether, gr. &?;, fr. &?; to light up, kindle, burn, blaze; akin to skr. idh, indh, and prob. to e. idle: cf. f. éther.] [written also ?ther]
[>] (physics) a medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.
[>] supposed matter above the air; the air itself.
[>] (chem.) (a) a light, volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (c2h5)2o , of a characteristic aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence called also sulphuric ether. it is powerful solvent of fats, resins, and pyroxylin, but finds its chief use as an an?sthetic. called also ethyl oxide. (b) any similar oxide of hydrocarbon radicals; as, amyl ether; valeric ether.
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Noun
[>] a colorless volatile highly inflammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic
(synonym) ethoxyethane, divinyl ether, vinyl ether, diethyl ether, ethyl ether
(hypernym) inhalation anesthetic, inhalation anaesthetic, inhalation general anesthetic, inhalation general anaesthetic
(hyponym) enflurane, Ethrane
(derivation) etherize, etherise
[>] the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
(synonym) quintessence
(hypernym) element
(classification) archaism, archaicism
[>] any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom
(hypernym) organic compound
[>] a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves
(synonym) aether
(hypernym) medium
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Now relateit to temperature [huh] [?]
Yours truthfully
~Infernity