The Mysteries of Magnetism

Finally, it should not be left unnoted that in the UV-meter mentioned in the first paragraph, there was no pure oxalic acid at all. It contained a chemically bonded form of oxalic acid, which— from a toxicity viewpoint—is quite different from oxalic acid itself. This is by no means surprising, because common salt, which is added to most food, forms from a chemical reaction between a metal (sodium), which reacts vigorously with water, and a gas (chlorine), which was used as a toxic chemical weapon in World War I. The substance produced in the reaction, NaCl, has properties that are unrelated to the properties of the predecessors. This process of toxic parents giving birth to non-toxic children is a cornerstone of modem chemical science. 

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The birth of an obscure theory, the molecular-structure determination, the leap to medical technology, the revelation of cerebral mysteries that s the history of magnetic resonance. Could a better case be made for funding research I think not. You can never tell where it will lead — like the destruction of the myth that we use only ten percent of our brains. This claim has been made by some psychics, who suggest that we would be capable of incredible feats if we just learned to use our brains to full capacity, mri has shown that most of us use over ninety percent of our brains, although not necessarily all parts at the same time. But perhaps some people do use just ten percent of their brains — those people who believe in the ten-percent myth. 

The first magnetic agent serving to prepare the Solvent which some have called Alkaest- is called the Green Lion... It s a green and acerbic fruit as compared to a red and ripe fruit... Fulcanelli The Mystery of the Cathedrals ... 

The Neel points and y values versus concentration x, are shown in fig. 13. The reason for such a high y value is a mystery since the material does not transform to the superconducting state at low temperature (Rauchschwalbe et al. 1985). Point-contact spectroscopy does not provide any indication of HF-state (Naydyuk et al. 1993). Structural disorder as the reason for both a high y and the absence of magnetic ordering... 

Quantimi Mechanics. By the mid-1920 s physicists had developed quantum mechanics, a powerful new theory explaining the behavior of electrons in atoms. Different forms of quantum mechanics emphasized electrons as particles (matrix mechanics) and electrons as waves (wave mechanics), and these theories were eventually shown to be equivalent. Quantum mechanics proved very successful for understanding ionic and covalent crystals, organic chemical molecules, and many other physical and chemical phenomena, but it proved unable to unlock the mysteries of superconductivity. However, in 1933 German physicist Walther Meissner discovered a superconductor s ability to repel magnetism, which provided a clue to understanding superconductivity, since study of the Meissner effect showed how transitions from normal to superconducting states are thermodynamically reversible. Other studies helped explain some of the... 

Verschuur, GerritL. Hidden Attraction The History and Mystery of Magnetism. New York Oxford University Press, 1993. 

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