A Small Leap of Faith

Hi Nigel,

I'll address each of your points one at a time. The first is an especially good question. I can offer some ideas as a catalyst for further thought. As we have been told, Paradise is at the nucleus of an ultimaton. I've tended to think that that statement is maybe somewhat of an analogy, but the revelators wouldn't have offered it if it didn't hold some major truths.

In keeping with the pattern of Paradise where unpervaded space enters on the North side, undergoes the process of being pervaded, then exits the South side, possibly the ultimaton works similarly. If that is the case, then maybe your picture of an ultimaton interacting with segregata which resembles a tornado could be expanded. What if a mirror image of the tornado were added 180 degrees at the point where the tornado focuses and visibly disappears? We are told that the flow of pervaded and unpervaded space through Paradise resembles an hour glass.

Assuming the above scheme, the ultimaton would be rotating at a very rapid rate. That rotation may push the local area of segregata both around in circles and downward (North to South) through the central axis of the ultimaton (assuming the ultimaton has a single axis around which it revolves).

In that picture we would presumably have polarity - a North and a South pole. The flow of energy and segregata (or some aspect of segregata) would have an opposite chirality, so to speak, when observed from above each of the poles. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch at this point to imagine that those poles would induce ultimatons to huddle where the North pole of one ultimaton is attracted to the South pole of another, just as magnets do.

Now we might do well to remember that the classical definition of charge is a discontinuity of polarization. What does that mean in our case? I would venture a guess that either the flow of energy or condition of segregata is diverted or it is cut off from an outside perspective. Could the coupling of one ultimaton's North pole to another's South pole effectively provide that situation? Or could the juxstaposition of the revolving segregata from 2 or more ultimatons provide such a situation? In this second option, ultimatons could be assembled so that the confluence of the flow of segregata might flow through the center of the congregate of the ultimatons. This could make an electron appear to have its charge located near its center rather than embodying an extended surface around the electron. That might help explain why an electron appears to behave as a "point particle".

Alternatively, the axis of a revolving ultimaton might have a point along it at both ends where the polarizing effects diminish to an extent that they are not a primary factor in inducing ultimatons to huddle or be attracted to each other. That point may have a very important relationship to quantization. If that is the case then it is likely to be a principle that applies to other particles such as the electron.

On the last point, Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics devotes quite a few pages to explore Dirac's theory of how quantization arises with an electron. The ideas above might fit in with that but it has been years since I reviewed that material. Here is a possibly related, more recent paper:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.13403

Dirac's theory involves magnetic monopoles which haven't been directly observed, as you know. However there is a reasonable amount of deep theorizing that that type of structure can and does arise for very short periods of time (a concept that apparently Dirac entertained). Maybe the bending or divergence of the energy flow at one pole of a magnetic structure produces similar or related results.

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