The writing has started, though, I am not sure where my writing is going to take me. This is the first component. My first rough working on the body. I imagine I am slowly going to expand my writing jumping from text to text, when specific quotes speak to me. Hope you enjoy. This peace is on the sun, and specifically sunlight. This might eventually develop into a exploration of sun religions, but for now it is exploring sunlight. Thanks for reading.
blam.
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The Plentiful Giver
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was a vast waste, darkness covered the deep, and the spirit of God hovered over the surface of the water. God said, ‘let there be light,’ and there was light.
The use of this quote is epic. It is the beginning, and so forth, the discussion of all beginnings. It is a world picture, let us not forge, which is what is eventually sought, the creation of the goal. The analysis that follows is not dogmatic so should not be seen or considered in a dogmatic sense. To begin, we begin with the same abstract beginning that is present with all beginnings, an unanswerable question of what, when, how, etc. We place this hazy beginning aside, as no good, unanswerable, always leading to another before, and concentrate on the macrocosm. The solar system, and life on earth. In discussion of this beginning:
The sun was born as an interstellar cloud. The cloud started with a barely perceptible rotation, but spun faster as it contracted; centrifugal force built up until it balanced gravity. A swirling disk then developed around a central proto-sun which continued to deflate very gradually, but this slow contraction halted when the center got hot enough to trigger hydrogen fusion. Meanwhile, the surrounding disk cooled; some of its gas condensed into dust and rocky fragments, which agglomerated into planets.
The sun, by then orbited by a planetary system, settled into an equilibrium, slowly but steadily fusing hydrogen in helium. (Rees, 8).
There is no point going into an exploration of the physics behind this beginning. Their story is too long and too out of place. The idea is what we are. With the formation of the sun, came the formation of the planets. Heaven and earth being created in the same process. An order becoming, like melted mercury being poured into a mold, matter restricted. The sun, the center, with its gravitational pull, bending space-time, creating grooves in the fabric of space for the mercury to flow through. The Sun and the earth and the other planets become locked in physical laws. One does not stray from the other, that is, until physics allows one to stray from the other.
With the creation of the earth there is the ability for the creation of life, the floor to a stage. More importantly though, with the creation of the sun, there is also the creation of a constant: light speed. The sun emits photons. These photons, light, travel at a speed of 300,000 km./sec. It is the maximum speed that is currently known that can almost be reached. To approach light speed, though never reach light speed. Light is the backdrop of the stage. As a constant it is a physical stability. Photons, always traveling at 300,000 km./sec, do no move, so to speak. This paradox resides within a metaphor toward frequencies. As photons all traveling at light speed, it is as if they are all of the same type of frequency ( I say as if same type of frequency because there are many different types of photons which have different frequencies, though, that still travel at the same speed). As if the same type of frequency, it is as if the photons are of the same pitch. As the same pitch, the same note. They are a oneness so they can’t create a difference, because there is no difference for them to go to. They can’t change their speed to slow down so every photon of light looks as if it was absolutely stable.
For light to be noticed, there has to be a speed slower than light. A biological speed. Exploring the macrocosm from an optic perspective one is always given a world. One cannot transcend this world, break this world. Orpheus, when leaving Hades, to make sure his wife was there, looked back, his wife wasn’t there, but the cavern walls were. Looking forward, to continue climbing out, he saw again the cavern walls. Always 300,000 km/sec. Always there. To turn his neck, his body moves at a speed slower than light. The light moves to his eye at light speed, but, now from a different perspective than light, as light traveling at 300,000 km./sec. The optic observer creates a different frequency from the light. So does the non-optic observer as well.
In these frequencies, named by Einstein the science of relativity, different perspectives of light become possible. A hierarchy of speeds that is created. Conflicts arising between mover and observer. The speed of the man, the speed of the horse, the speed of the car, the speed of the train, the speed of the plane, all creating different speeds in light by being slower than light. It is as if one were to be on a pier watching an ocean linear leave the dock. The ship is so large that no contrast is possible between the pier that is stable and the ship. Standing on the pier looking at the ship, the ship seems to be stable and the pier seems to be moving. Standing on the ship, looking at the pier, the pier seems to be moving and the ship seems to be stable. Or returning to our first metaphor towards light, light as the backdrop gives placement to the actors who move in front of it.
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