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"In the initial stage of
emanation,
the prevalent
manifestation was that of the infinite Light."
- Nissan
Dovid Dubov
"Tis light makes colour visible:
at night
red, greene, and russet vanish from thy sight.
So to thee light by darkness
is made known:
since God hath none, He, seeing all, denies
Himself
eternally to mortal eyes.
From the dark jungle as a tiger bright,
form
from the viewless Spirit leaps to light."
-Rumi
"For he whose mind is well trained in the ways
that lead to light,
who surrenders the bondage of attachments and find joy
in his freedom from bondage,
who free from the darkness of passions shines
pure in a radiance of light,
even in this mortal life he enjoys
eternal inner peace."
-
Dhammapada
"What is
the nature of this
invisible
thing called
light whose presence calls
everything into existence excepting itself?
Light touches all aspects of our
being, revealing a part of itself in each
encounter.
We have seen the character of successive ages reflected in
the images they have made of
light.
Light has been treated
scientifically by physicists,
symbolically by religious
thinkers and practically by
artists and technicians.
Each gives voice to a part of
our experience of
light.
When heard
together they craft a fuller
image of light than anyone
discipline can offer - all speak of one
thing whose nature
has been the object of
human attention and veneration for millennia.
Only more recently have we grown certain of the entanglement of
nature and the human
mind.
The
transformations of
cultures over time have had
profound effects on the insights
humanity has had into nature.
These form a sequence, not of disjointed
fragments, but a whole that unfolds in
time, a series of
awakenings that reflects
inner growth.
The
philosopher Heraclitus was right: "It is in
changing that things find repose."
Scientific and
intuitive knowledge
of light have reflected the
continual metamorphosis of our inward instruments of knowing.
Through research, artistic practices and quiet
contemplation, light's
elusive being constantly re-creates itself in our mind's eye, offering fresh
epiphanies to every generation.
The
very existence of that
transformation suggests the
possibility of further evolution,
individually and
culturally, and the possibility of re-linking the moral and
sensual, the physical and
spiritual, in a fresh,
unitary imagination.
Every
manifestation of light is a
potentially occasion for grasping the truth of
light, be it the dappled disks
of light beneath the shade of a
tree or the moonbeam that furtively makes its
way through a
chink in the wall.
Each instance
offers an occasion for enlightenment, for
seeing the light.
Seeing
light is a
metaphor for seeing the
invisible in the visible, for
detecting the fragile garment that holds our Earth and
all existence together.
In the mingling of
nature and mind arises
an understanding of the
light of life." - Arthur Zajonc
Light is
defined as:
sunshine
life;
existence
easily
digested
dawn;
daybreak
to enliven or
animate
of little quantity; scanty
mildly dizzy or
faint
to emit light; be lighted
liable to
change; fickle
an
expression of the
eyes
easily
awakened or disturbed
to set on
fire; ignite or kindle
to come upon one
unexpectedly
the representation of
light in art
spiritual
awareness; illumination
prosperity;
happiness; joy;
felicity
the brightness of the eye or
eyes
lacking in ethical discrimination
the power of
perception by
vision
having a loose, porous
consistency
moving easily and quickly; nimble
public attention; general
knowledge
of relatively little
weight; not heavy
exerting little
force or impact;
gentle
having little importance; insignificant
to come upon by
chance or accident
carrying little
equipment or armament
to descend to the earth after flight; land
designed to carry relatively little
weight
characterized by
frivolity; silly or
trivial
to
cause to give out light; make
luminous
the sensation of perceiving
light; brightness
of
relatively little weight for its size or
bulk
electromagnetic radiation of any
wavelength
a individual
who inspires or is adored by
another
the
illumination derived from a
source of light
to provide, cover, or
fill with light;
illuminate
a prominent or distinguished
individual; a
luminary
of less than the correct,
standard, or legal weight
to get down, as from a vehicle or
horse; dismount
demanding little exertion or effort; not
burdensome
a source of
fire, such as a match or
cigarette lighter
the particular
quantity or quality of such illumination
the
pathway or route of such
illumination to an
individual
something that provides information or clarification
something, such as a window, that admits
illumination
a
way of looking at or considering a
matter; an aspect
to signal, direct, or
guide with or as if with illumination
intended primarily as
entertainment; not serious or profound
open
view; a visible state or condition; public observation;
publicity
in Quaker doctrine, the
guiding spirit or
divine
presence in each
individual
a
source of light, especially a lamp, a
lantern, or an electric lighting fixture
the
time during which the
light of the
sun is visible; day; especially, the dawn of day
a state of awareness or understanding, especially as derived from a particular
source
that which furnishes, or is a
source of, light, as the
sun, a star,
a candle, a lighthouse, etcetera
one who is
conspicuous or noteworthy; a model or
example; as, the lights of the age or of
antiquity
designed for ease and quickness
of movement; having a relatively slim
structure and little
weight
a firework made by filling a case with a
substance which burns brilliantly with a white or colored
flame
a
mechanical device that uses
illumination as a signal or ,
especially a beacon or traffic signal
requiring relatively little
equipment and using relatively simple processes to
produce consumer
goods
that which
illumines or makes
clear to the
mind; mental or
spiritual illumination; enlightenment; knowledge; information
that agent,
force, or action in
nature by the operation
of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered
visible or luminous
appearance due
to the particular facts and circumstances
presented to view;
point of
view; as, to state things fairly and put them in the
right
light
light is used figuratively to
denote that which resembles physical
light in any regard,
as
illuminating, benefiting,
enlightening, or enlivening mankind
Electromagnetic radiation that has a
wavelength in the range from about 4,000 (violet) to about 7,700 (red)
angstroms and may be perceived by the normal
unaided human eye.
The medium through which light is admitted, as a window, or
window pane; a skylight;
in architecture, one of the compartments of a
window made by a mullion or mullions.
The manner in which the
light strikes upon a
picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the
light is supposed to fall; the
more illuminated part of a landscape or
other scene.
"Our eyes have evolved as light receptors by an
adaptive process that responds to the nature of
light. Their structure tells
us things about the true nature of light. There is no room for a
view that all our knowledge of light is nothing more than a mental
creation. It is precisely because it is a
creation of our minds
that our knowledge of light contains
elements of an underlying reality. The fact that we possess eyes bears witnesses
to the reality of that something we call light." -
John D. Barrow
light used as a
metaphor
"This is the message we heard from
Jesus and now declare to you:
God is light, and there is no darkness in him at
all." - 1 John 1:5
"A true seeker must transcend those joys and
delights that are just the ray and reflection of the glory of
God. He must not let himself grow content with
such things, even though they are of God, come
from God's grace, and are
of the radiance of God's beauty, for they are not
eternal; with reference to
God they are eternal: with reference to man, they are
not.
Think of the rays of the sun shining into houses. They are rays of
the sun, and they are light, but they are attached to the sun and not the
houses.
When the sun sets, the ray's light does not remain. What we
have to do, then, is to become the Sun itself, so all fear of separation can
forever be ended." - Rumi
Early religious
speakers and writers used concepts that would be
most widely understood by the audience.
This
tradition is ensconced in Christianity
as the fight between the forces of evil, dark forces,
and good, the forces of light.
In Hinduism the
principle fight is between the
Creator Brahma, a light
force, and the Destroyer
Shiva, a dark force.
Little children are afraid of the
dark. Little children are afraid of the dark because they can not see. Little
children understand that the ability to see is advantageous to their
well-being. Therefore their fear of the dark is justifiable.
This trait
is carried into adulthood with future effects directly proportional to degree
of fear and trauma experienced initially in childhood.
‘Dark'
thoughts are seen by a man's soul as detrimental to living whereas ‘light'
thoughts are seen as spiritually
uplifting.
"Light from anywhere in the
universe travels through space at
186,000 miles per second. Photons enter the
eye/brain/mind configuration as stream-bursts of light via the retinal process,
which amplifies each photon's energy a
million times or more.
Every waking moment visible light flows into your eyes,
intiating a magnificent process which entails light oscillating through swirls
of multitudinous neural
fibers, passing through a refraction process involving millions of microscopic
rods and cones located at the back of the eyeball, which produce
electro-chemical currents that surge through the optic nerve and into the
thalamus, then the visual cortex, mysteriously creating the marvelous process we
experience as sight.
The entire edifice of how we
perceive
reality is intimately reliant on the retina's
reception of light waves, the largest percentage of which are
photons radiating from the
sun.
Sunlight is
essentially streams of
photons, "particles" of light which have zero "mass."
Photons as
radiant electromagnetic energy bind
electrons to the orbits of
atoms.
Atoms, of which the entire
phenomenal
world is made, are born from the astronomically
immense upheaval of super nova explosions which occur every second
across the universe of one hundred
billion galaxies, with each
explosion producing a luminosity
one billion times that of our sun.
We consist of such furiously made "stardust" and "starlight."
We are, in essence, beings of light born
from solar fury."-
Lew Paz
Newtonian theory was the first theory
developed to
explain the
nature of light.
Newton's theory was regarded as consisting of any actual
transmission of material particles, or
corpuscules, sent off in all directions from luminous bodies,
and traversing space, in right
lines, with the known velocity of about 186,300 miles per second.
Newton's
math was
right.
The theory of the nature of
light known as the undulatory or wave theory consisted of the propagation of vibrations or
undulations in a subtile, elastic medium, or ether, assumed to pervade all
space, and to be thus set in
vibratory motion by the action of
luminous bodies, as the atmosphere is by sonorous
bodies. Conceptually accurate as when objects in
sunlight gain radiant
energy when exposed to the rays of our
sun, Sol.
The currently accepted
theory, electro-magnetic theory of light, most accurately describes
the properties of light as a
form of electro-magnetic
oscillations.
Einstein makes an
assumption"Special relativity theory (1905) has a special
difficulty. It baffles almost everyone, yet nothing more than high school
algebra is involved. So it's not the math.
It's that we must accept
something that is impossible to believe – except on Einstein's authority.
We should reject that authority, as indeed we should reject authority
in all fields of science.
It was the Michelson-Morley experiment of
1887 that launched special relativity. It involves only unaccelerated, linear
motion. If curved motion, acceleration, or gravity, are involved, then we must
turn to general relativity (1916), where the math gets much more difficult.
Albert Michelson, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Physics,
attempted to detect the passage of the orbiting earth through the ether, the
medium in which light waves travel. It was postulated that just as sound
travels in its medium, air, so light waves need a medium, too. As the earth
orbits the Sun at a speed of about 48 miles per second, it should be possible,
using an interferometer – an instrument that Michelson had perfected
– to detect the Earth's passage through that ether. Michelson's idea was
that there should be a difference in the measured speed of the to-and-fro
motion of a light beam within the interferometer – the difference being
caused by the forward motion of the earth during the light beam's time of
transmission. The difference in light speed would cause a "fringe shift" to be
seen in the interferometer, which was sensitive enough to detect such an
effect.
But no such fringe shift could be detected. This "null result"
threw the world of theoretical physics into turmoil.
Michelson,
incidentally, never accepted relativity theory.
Einstein postulated
– assumed – that the speed of light is a constant irrespective of the
motion, not just of the light source, but also of the observer.
And
that "observer" part was very hard to accept.
A sound wave travels at a
constant speed in air (of a given temperature and density) whatever the motion
of the sound source. Sound from an airplane travels forward at a speed that is
unaffected by the speed of the plane.
But if you travel toward that
approaching sound wave then you must add your speed to that of the plane's
sound wave if you are to know the speed with which it approaches you. But
Einstein decreed that the simple "addition of velocities" that applies to sound
does not hold true for light. Light waves approach us at the same speed whether
we travel toward or away from that light beam.
It's important to note
that Einstein didn't observe that in any experiment. He postulated it.
He said: "Let's assume it is true."
What follows from it? Well,
speed is distance divided by time. When you move toward that light beam, which
(Einstein said) always approaches at a constant speed irrespective of how you
(the observer) move, then space must contract, and time must dilate to exactly
the extent that is needed to ensure that the light approaches at an
ever-constant speed. It's a bizarre claim. What Einstein did was take the
fundamentals of physics, space and time, and argue that they must be
subordinated to a velocity." -Tom Bethell
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