Quarks and the Cabala

The Cabala describes creation in four divisions accounting for the atttenuation of light through myriad contractions ending in physical creation; nonetheless, the diversity of creation remains unexplained coming merely through the vehicle of contractive transitions-it is the four divisions which account for creation more than the light. These four divisions are delineated as: light, vessel, garment and dwelling. These four divisions are directly related to the four elements of fire, water, air and earth; the four seasons, the directions and the four species of life: inanimate, growing, animal and human being able to articulate thoughts into speech.

This division of four is represented in the atom which is the first expression of garment-the electron. The nucleus of the atom is like the body which houses the soul, the two are inseparable comparable to the light and vessel spoken about in the Cabala. The Ore/Light is unable to illuminate without a Klee/Vessel; this idea is represented in the fire of the sun which travels in darkness until reaching the atmosphere of the earth which allows the illumination of the sun to be revealed.

Once inside the vessel the light in indistinguishable from the vessel which holds the light-vessel and light become as one, the description of essence. Particulars do not exist in the essence, only the potential of particulars exist-the sub-atomic particles like the electron are the infinite expression of the essence known as garment. It is through the garment that the body is seen and though the garment is not the body it is a good representation of the body.

Beyond the clothing is the dwelling; the dwelling is established when the individual electrons combine together to form structure. The structure is so divorced from the original essence that freedom of choice becomes possible. Within the atom, the essence is found in the six quarks-a pair of triangles; these six quarks account for moment to moment functioning of the atom by transferring the light invested within the two triangles.

The Cabala describes precisely the same mechanism for transference of light and uses this knowledge to explain how it is that intellect is brought into emotion-dividing the body into three levels, head, torso, lower body plus the soul mimics the construct of the four spirit world from whose symmetry the atom is built. The scientists know this knowledge through experimentation in pursuit of theoretical ideas that might describe the functioning of the physical world; the knowledge of the Torah comes from the exploration of the spiritual realm upon which all the physical creation is predicated.