Editorial June 10, 1972 Issue

Understanding Mind, We Can Deal with Matter

Carl J. Welz

Not long ago I received in the mail a tiny metal box with a note pasted on it: "Small parts. Open with care." A letter explained that these parts were the focus of a physics research project at a large university. The sender was the professor in charge of the project, and, he explained, Christian Science had been the key to its success.

It was a study of electrical resistance of metallic copper. A great increase of resistance in the copper appears when a trace of iron has been dissolved in it. This seems to defy explanation. The project involved measurements at very low temperatures and very high pressures (–269°C and 1 million plus pounds per square inch). The measuring process involved a piece of copper set in between two tiny pieces of soft stone with platinum wires connected to the copper —all the work having to be done under a microscope. Because the stone was soft, pressure should have caused it to flow around the wires and hold them in place. But the flow could not be contained or controlled. Short circuits followed. An epoxy layer between the stones and the copper was tried, but still no success.

Intensive effort to solve this problem over a period of months produced only failures. Finally the professor, a student of Christian Science, called a practitioner, explained the problem, and asked for prayerful help. The practitioner quickly pointed out that the problem was one of seeing the nothingness of matter and the allness of Mind.

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