Humpty Dumpty

The main character in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme is assumed to be a raw egg. However, it is equally apropos if applied to matter that is subjected to heat of such extreme intensity that the resulting expansion causes the atoms and potentially the electrons, neutrons and protons of which made, to disintegrate. It is quite generally understood that an explosion, such as fuel in the cylinder of an engine or the material used in making bombs, is in fact rapidly consummated combustion. Combustion is a process where a small amount of heat inserted into a fuel mixture causes some of the atoms, of which the fuel is made, to expand. The resulting expansion fractures the forces that bind the components of which those atoms were made with the energy that produced the binding forces released as heat, which in turn causes a “chain reaction” of expansion and fragmentation. With rapid fragmentation of the fuel’s atoms there is a rapid release of heat and the resulting rapid expansion is seen as an explosion. Release of the energy that produces the forces that bind the components of which atoms and atoms themselves are made, is the source of all heat in the universe and when those forces are fragmented you could correctly say that Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

Heat is fundamental to physics and creation. It is the increase in heat content that causes the expansion of atoms by which action their state is changed from solid to liquid to gas or vapor and subsequently to plasma. In the pure plasma state, all binding forces of the involved material would have been fragmented. In that state, all that remains is the energy which is recognized under other circumstances as “the charge” by which a difference of potential is produced for example in an electrical system. It is the charge that produces the repelling action that notables such as Sir William Gilbert (1540-1603), Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) and Charles Coulomb (1736-1806) attempted to explain. It is the same charge that is inherent in lines of magnetic force that are impressed upon the conductors in a magna-motive force generator to create the difference of potential used to force the movement of electrons in an electrical system or in the lines of magnetic force that produces the magnetic field of the sun or the earth and whose infinite repelling force precludes the union of those charges.

The process of releasing the charge energy inherent in atoms is the process that takes place in our sun. Recognize first that the amount of charge energy (heat) released on the sun exceeds the absorption capability of remaining atoms. Therefore, with no atoms within which to be absorbed, no binding force of gravity, but with infinite repelling force, the released energy rises to the surface of the sun. However, because of the repelling force of the sun’s magnetic field the released energy is contained, concentrated and compressed in that area of the sun called the corona. Eventually, pressure inside the corona is relieved when the sun’s magnetic field is distended as has come to be recognized as the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) and the solar wind.

This Humpty Dumpty has the potential of showing the way to the development of alternative fuel sources. All that is required is recognition that the energy that produces the binding of atoms is a fundamental component in the assembly of electrons, protons, neutrons and the entire universe and it makes no difference if the atoms make hydrocarbons or uranium.