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"It was all done by hand," Indira agreed. "And it wasn't done by slave labor, because the sculptors put their name onto their creations. This doesn't happen in a slavery society where individual worth and dignity has no meaning."
"But it does happen, and is natural, in an intimate society," I added. "And that is also the most natural society there is. An intimate society is a distinctly lateral society where everyone stands side by side with equal worth and equal dignity, and to some degree stands side by side with their God. I think we can see this characteristic reflected in the makeup of the universe as a whole. It is basic to everything. From the principles that construct an atom and all the way up to the largest cluster of galaxies, we see a universe of principles that harmonize with each other. That makes it a lateral universe.
"An atom is a wonder of forces held in perfect balance by an array of profound principles that harmonize with each other, without which we wouldn't have a universe," I continued. "An atom is basically empty space with a minuscule core at it center that is surrounded by a swirl of electrons that move incredibly fast in their orbit and thereby give the atom its shape. Nor do the electrons bump into each other, because particles of equal charge repel each other according to another harmonizing principle. Nor do the electrons fly away from their orbit. They are kept there by another harmonizing principle that causes particles of unequal charge to attract each other. The center of the atom is made up of protons that are positively charged, while the electrons are negatively charged. By their unequal charge the protons and the electrons attract each other. This attraction is what keeps the electrons in their orbit. Nevertheless their combined attraction isn't great enough for the electrons to be pulled out of their orbit and be crashed into the core. Instead they remain perfectly balanced in an equilibrium that is maintained for billions of years. And so an atom is essentially a structure of perfect balance maintained by harmonizing principles.
"But the wonder doesn't stop there," continued. "The core of an atom, as tiny as it is, is a marvel in itself. Whenever an atom has more than one proton particle in its core, the protons that are all of equal charge should repel each other whereby the atom would fly apart. But that doesn't happen. In order to prevent this effect for destroying the atom the Intelligence that forms the universe invented the neutral particle, called the neutron, which it packed tightly between the protons, as if to keep them out of each other's reach. In real terms the neutron acts more like a strong-force glue that counteracts the repulsion and keeps the nucleus together. Thus the atom remains intact and stable, and remains in perfect balance for countless billions of years. The electrons don't wear out, and they don't loose their energy. Their orbit doesn't decay. The atom is by all considerations nothing short of a miracle of an incredibly intelligent design that enables the universe to exist.
"And still the wonder goes further," I added, "because the particles that are perceived in nuclear physics are not perceived as tiny specs of matter, but as constructs themselves, of fast moving points of energy called quarks that construct both the protons and the neutrons of the atomic nucleus. There are two types of quarks in the nucleus that are assembled in different combinations. There are "up quarks" and "down quarks." The "up quark" has a charge of +2/3, and the "down quark" has a charge of -1/3. The sum of the charges of the quarks that are assembled to make up a so-called nuclear particle determines the over-all effective electrical charge of it. The protons thus contain two up quarks and one down quark, which results in a total charge of +1, the positive charge. The neutrons in turn contain only one up quark but two down quarks which results in a combined total charge of 0, a neutral charge, or no effective charge. In this infinitesimal realm of 'dancing' points of energy the construction of the nucleus is actually held together by something much stronger than an insulating effect. That something is called the "strong nuclear force" which is one of the four fundamental forces of the universe, such as gravity, the electromagnetic force, and the nuclear 'weak force' that comes into play with energy conversion. The 'strong force' is that 'glue' of the atomic nucleus that is acting in such a manner at the level of the quarks that it counteracts the tendency of the positively charged protons to repel each other. The strong force is also said to hold the quarks themselves together that make up the protons and the neutrons."
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