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Precipitation of Matter

One of the phenomena of spiritualism which least admits of a rational explanation is that known as the passing of solids through solids." The statement of the hypothetical fourth dimension of space is an attempt at a solution of the problem; so also is the theory of "precipitation of matter." The latter suggests that before one solid body passes through another it is resolved into its component atoms, to be precipitated in its original form when the passage is accomplished. M.

Camille Flammarion found a parallel to this process in the passage of a piece of ice-a solid-through a napkin. The ice passes through the napkin in the form of water, and may afterwards be re-frozen. This is matter passing through matter, a solid passing through a solid, after it has undergone a change of condition. And we are only carrying out M. Flammarion's inference in suggesting that it is something analogous to this process which occurs in all cases of solids passing through solids.