I have been exploring the one constant in our lives...light. I don't know how often we actually think about the properties of light and how much it is a part of everything.
We are beings of light. To comprehend this, it is important to understand what light is. But to fully understand that, it is best to explore some properties of light and how it behaves in certain circumstances. I am sure we could all agree that light travels fastest in a vacuum. The speed of light in vacuum has been measured to be 300 million meters per second. This is the fastest that anything has been observed to move.
At that speed it would take light a mere one tenth of a second to circumvent the globe. When light enters any material, it slows down. The amount that it slows down depends on the nature of the material. The more dense the material, the slower the speed light. For example, in water, light is approximately 30% slower than in vacuum, while in glass it is 50% slower. In diamond, one of of the most dense material known, light travels at less than 150 million meters per second.
Remarkably, in the past year research scientists at MIT have been able to make microscopic quantities of a very strange, and very dense state of matter in which the speed of light is (theoretically) calculated to be just a few meters per second. This slowing down of light plays an important role in how we interpret refraction.
Just putting together
So what is the purpose of this science lesson on light? I am sure we have all participated in those Grade 7 science experiments where we learned what happens to light, reflection, refraction, (including internal reflection and dispersion) diffraction and interference. I am sure we looked at the way a rainbow is formed as light enters droplets of water. It continues to fascinate me just how much light is a part of everything and we still are exploring the theories of its source.
Further exploration takes us into the way in which light travels. Initially Newton had theorized it was a series of particles. We now more fully comprhend its value in terms of waves.
What interests me, is the effect this has on our body, mind and soul. We are comprised of light. We interact with light. The rate at which light travels in, around and through us is what I am most intrigued with. What is the rate of absorbsion, refraction reflection, diffusion, dispersion and interference of light when it is applied to the individual.
What does the very substance of a thought have to do with creating a vibrational energy field or a wave pattern that sets everything in motion to manifist into our reality. It is not until light actually interacts with everything that it truly becomes a part of our tangible reality. But what about all the intangibles. What about all that we cannot see due to the transparency of what light waves are being absorbed?
But more to the point, it is our divine nature to want to seek the truth and find the purity and clarity of our own individual worth. I sometimes think as we explore this, we start to doubt that there is that pure energy, white light--comprising of all the colours of the light spectrum...with a bandwidth that is infinite...If even one of the atoms in our cells split, the explosion would likely blow up the entire world! I am not sure of the actual facts regarding this, but it would be catacalysmic.
Okay, so I have very lightly (pun intented) skimmed over the surface of light properties and raised a few questions as to what effect light has on us individually. It is a difficult concept to actually theoretically esplore in a few short paragraphs, but I do hope it provokes a few waves of thought...that will in and of itself, be a pattern of light that could manifest some amazing results for each of us individually and collectively.
