{"product_id":"photons-dont-glow-h-frank-gaertner-9781965732533","title":"Photons Don't Glow: Our Self-Assembling Universe-4; Bk 1 An SBI-Guided AWTbook(TM) on The Assembly of Matter, Organisms \u0026 Conscious States","description":"My name is H. Frank Gaertner. The young woman shown below on the book's back cover is Sally Reynolds, a fictional character whose water-color image pretty well matches my imagination for an 18 to 21-year-old, literary-foil. Sally Reynolds is also the main character in \u003cem\u003eSally and the Magic River\u003c\/em\u003e, a fictional story about a 10-year-old who has a tragic experience. Such an experience happened to me at age 10. The result of our individual tragedies led both of us to live lives filled with magic. As over 1000 reviews on Good Reads confirm, \u003cem\u003eSally and the Magic River is \u003c\/em\u003ewonderful and made even more so by its presentation on \u003cem\u003eAudible.com.\u003c\/em\u003e How so? It's narrated by the magnificent, story-telling voice of Rebekah Nemethy. It took a while, but I now understand why \u003cem\u003eSally and the Magic River\u003c\/em\u003e was so dear and easy for me to write. Many events in the story reminded me of my own story. Over the years, Sally has become more real for me, especially now at my age of 86. You will learn in \u003cem\u003ePhotons Don't Glow\u003c\/em\u003e, i.e., the book you now hold, how our attempts to understand consciousness have taken Sally and me on a fantastic mental trip. For example, the following has been made obvious. With rare exceptions, each of us humans is, in effect, neural-inked to a second conscious being! We each have two cerebral hemispheres. It's like we have two interconnected people living within us. Each hemisphere has its own domain of experience. For example, my left hemisphere, which I like to call Sally, controls my right hand, plays the piano by ear, and remembers most everything my right hemisphere has forgotten. Interesting, isn't it?The object I'm holding in the picture above is my version of the nucleus of an atom, i.e., the one that makes up the largest alkali metal in the periodic table of elements. I assembled its 87 protons and 136 neutrons using nothing but fabric tape and ping-pong balls. I show in volume two of \u003cem\u003eOur Self-Assembling Universe\u003c\/em\u003e how one can construct all of the atomic nuclei in the periodic table this way. This fun method of assembly was used to introduce the basics of nuclear physics to over 300 8\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-graders. However, as was made abundantly clear, such models only help one's initial grasp of quantum reality with its fields of force, forcefields, photons, light, perturbations of virtual particles and antiparticles in empty space, and, therefrom, manifestations of quarks et al. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e H. Frank Gaertner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1965732534\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781965732533\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Workbook Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.22d","brand":"H. Frank Gaertner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48014234190079,"sku":"9781965732533","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9288f778-a7f8-4acd-bd80-00c2a875081a.jpg?v=1767747524","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/photons-dont-glow-h-frank-gaertner-9781965732533","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}