August 13, 2007
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This stuff puts Shanti to sleep!
Something to look at….
The traditional crystal habits of alpha quartz
A beta quartz crystal habit
What are you seeing in this crystal?
See it now?
see it now?
correct me if I am wrong but
I believe many call this….
The golden symmetry
http://members.tripod.com/~Glove_r/Sheldrake.html
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Wow!! An
alpha after beta pseudomorph
The Classical hexagonal pyramid minus the C-axis or m face
as with all beta quartz
I am not to good with this painting program thing
but you can see it perhaps
yes?
Some variations in beta~alpha transition symmerty…
One half the right appears a hexagonal pyramid
the other on the left
rotated trigonal pryamid
Layers of embedded Record keepers…. !
Golden symmetry indeed
http://www.galleries.com/minerals/silicate/quartz.htm
Beta Quartz:
At surface temperatures and pressures, quartz is the most stable form of silicon dioxide, to no ones surprise. Quartz will remain stable up to 573 degrees Celsius at 1 kilobar of pressure. As the pressure increases the temperature at which quartz will lose stability also increases.
Above 1300 degrees and at a pressure of approximately 35 kilobars, only beta quartz also known as high quartz is stable. Beta quartz is not the same as normal quartz, actually referred to as alpha quartz, low quartz or, as is mostly done here, just quartz. Beta quartz has higher symmetry, is less dense and has a slightly lower specific gravity. The conversion, from one solid substance to another solid substance, of quartz to beta quartz is quick, reversible and accompanied with a slight energy absorption. The conversion in fact is so easily accomplished that a crystal of quartz heated to beta quartz, cooled back down, heated again to beta quartz, etc and the crystal when all is done, will be the same as when it started.
The reason that the conversion is so easily accomplished is that the difference between quartz and beta quartz is relatively slight. The bonds between the oxygens and silicons are “kinked” or bent in quartz and are not so “kinked” in beta quartz. At the higher temperatures the atoms move away from each other just enough to allow the bonds to unkink or straighten and produce the higher symmetry. As the temperature is lowered, the atoms close in on each other and the bonds must kink in order to be stable and this lowers the symmetry back down again.
Although all quartz at temperatures lower than 573 degrees Celsius is low quartz, there are a few examples of crystals that obviously started out as beta quartz. Sometimes these are labeled as beta quartz but are actually examples of pseudomorphic or “falsely shaped” crystals more correctly labeled ‘quartz after beta quartz’. These crystals are of higher symmetry than low quartz although low quartz can form similar crystals to them. They are composed of hexagonal dipyramids which are a pair of opposing six sided pyramids and the crystals lack prism faces. Quartz’s typical termination is composed of two sets of three rhombic faces that can look like a six sided pyramid.
Comments (18)
what does it mean?
this?
Lovely–I am always drawn to the angles of things. Great post. I am ready to buy!!
Shucks, I saw what looked like a hairy troll. And a dragon in that other one.
(sigh)
:sunny:
you get extra credit for that
The golden ratio~yes!
In using the language of comparison and mathematical relationships, Divine Proportion is applied to life’s mysteries by placing the larger next to the smaller and holding them both up to the whole. What is discovered, is a relationship of balance, harmony and symmetry that is quite uncanny; and it is as mysterious in its functioning as the code man seeks to break–Priya
PHI~a wonder not obvious and not hidden.
if you don’t mind master…I’ll sit next to Shanti:p
when are you going to write about the crystal soul?:spinning:
…I think you might have two problems…shanti and i…:lol:
:love:love you master[no sweaty love:nono: ]:wave:
I’ll wait when “it” tells you…:sunny:am very patient…just like shanti with you:laugh:
:lookaround:
, MMMM, OK,
:heartbeat: luv the red accents on the purple :coolman:
humm..difficult for me..match to sleep as like as shanti…
btw..how do you think about great pyramid of Giza.
Dang! I followed the first link. I feel like a small insect in a bog full of bug eating plants ,meaning I could easily find myself consumed due to my own curiosity and ignorance.,or let us say I am not a digestible bug I might at the very least remain distracted and puzzled for several days..
.This post is a fine example of why I love the net,I can bump into ideas I have not encountered before…. meanwhile I see in this an idea that connection between things living and inert is much stronger then we assume ,,,and that symmetry as expressed in music , and our bodies ,and crystals is at the heart of it somehow.
RYC I have spent the summer reading what I think are wonderful books, for example all of Sinclair lewis’s works ,and some Hemingway ,and now I am reading a book by F Scott Fitzgerald,and I suppose its making me want to write sentences that can stand on their own legs….I wonder though if there is room between my ears for a novel mixed in with all those loose nuts and bolts and such:)
Ahh My Love–I hated hanging up last night–you just fill the airwaves with wisdom. I felt the reverberations in my guest book today where I had 40 footprints. Laughing out loud–:fun: you are a true gem the brightest amongst the crystal gems you tend. To the moment–a true present from the Unvierse! :laugh: :yes: :love: :heartbeat:
Mara :heartbeat: :heartbeat: :heartbeat:
Humm i seem to have found a fortune …cookie…
let me read it….hummm
“woman who fly upside down, have hairy crack up”
…….
I wonder what that means?
:spinning:
Shanti might be sleeping, but I found this utterly facinating and would like to know more. Definitely worth reading more.
Sacred Geometry arising consciously by consciousness up Now from the earth..Tetragrames…four dimensional five six seven eight nine …googleplex..rides through those portals to somewhere…we have been before (?) ….Love the two triangles…beautiful symmetry..event horizons ( micro)…ah size irrelvent…Flying through the portals..Yes!* ((Wings))
I am back…only seemed to slip off the end of the earth for two weeks..apologies..