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The Earth’s Warmth Envelope as an Inner-Space Formation in the Inorganic
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A contribution by Matthias Rang
In this lecture, Matthias Rang opens a conference on the theme of “warmth” with the fairy tale “The Little Match Girl” and uses it to show four qualities of warmth: physical, social, religious and spiritual. He then draws a connection to the Earth’s warmth envelope, of which we are barely aware, explains its special character between element and ether, and reports on a fascinating stratospheric balloon experiment that explores this invisible envelope with infrared sensors.
A contribution by Matthias Rang to the 2025 autumn conference of the Natural Science Section at the Goetheanum.
German | Subtitles · DE · EN
Publication: 13 February 2026
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Speakers
Matthias RangMatthias Rang, born in 1973 in Freiburg im Breisgau, studied physics and physics education in Freiburg and Berlin and received his PhD from the University of Wuppertal in 2015 on phenomenological approaches to complementary spectra. He has been a researcher at the Research Institute at the Goetheanum since 2007 and co-leader of the Natural Science Section since 2020. His research focuses on complementary phenomena in optics and the relationship between Goethe's theory of colour and Newton's optics.
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- Series
- Wärme – Keim der Verbindung und der Verwandlung, Episode 1 of 8
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- Natural Sciences
- Language
- German · Subtitles: German, English
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