Universal force

Rudolf Steiner refers to all etheric forces that act centrifugally from the cosmic periphery on the living world without potential as universal forces (also circumferential forces, peripheral forces or centrifugal forces). By their very nature they are space-emptying suction forces; they do not work through space but through the negative counter-space that can only be grasped by turning it upside down. The physical central forces act in exactly the opposite way as space-filling pressure forces, which are always connected with a potential that makes it possible to gain physical work from the force field. In nature, both types of forces always work together; only the machines developed by man and currently in use, from the steam engine to the nuclear power plant, make practically exclusive use of the central forces.

Literature

• Paul Emberson: Maschinen und Menschengeist, The DewCross Centre for Moral Technology, Edinburgh 2013
• Rudolf Steiner: Fachwissenschaften und Anthroposophie, GA 73a (2005), ISBN 3-7274-0735-2 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die soziale Grundforderung unserer Zeit – In geänderter Zeitlage, GA 186 (1990), ISBN 3-7274-1860-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die pädagogische Praxis vom Gesichtspunkte geisteswissenschaftlicher Menschenerkenntnis. Die Erziehung des Kindes und jüngeren Menschen., GA 306 (1989), ISBN 3-7274-3060-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Geisteswissenschaftliche Impulse zur Entwickelung der Physik, I, GA 320 (2000), ISBN 3-7274-3200-4 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Geisteswissenschaftliche Impulse zur Entwickelung der Physik, II, GA 321 (2000), ISBN 3-7274-3210-1 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Naturbeobachtung, Experiment, Mathematik und die Erkenntnisstufen der Geistesforschung, GA 324 (1991), ISBN 3-7274-3242-X English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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