dreg wrote:You've seen yellow light? My supreme light is colourless, while being filled with every colour, with all radiative energy. A light that gifts its plenitude. That dances across the realms and oppresses me with its heat, and with the burdens of its plenitude. I grow weary of its earthly embrace.
Thanks for that...
In school they said pure light is 'white' and the prism splits it into colours (i.e creating a spectrum of different frequencies). So isn't light 'white' not colourless? Of course any colour is down to perception, what is perceived is the effect of light, not the thing in itself. As I understand it, and grossly simplified - light consists of Photons, electro-magnetic energy, that hit the retina, sending electrical impulses down the optic nerve to the brain.
Surfaces reflect light and absorb light, depending on the proportion of frequencies absorbed/reflected we see particular colours.
At least, thats how i understand how 'colour' arises.
If anyone had been around from about 10seconds to aprox 300,000 years after the Big Bang, then all they would have actually seen was 'light' i.e photons.(In fact would not the Big Bang 'moment' have been invisible and soundless to any theoretical observer?).
To me 'Light' is a good symbol of the ultimate, source and energy of the universe even accepting modern cosmology. And obviously there would be no life on earth without the light of the Sun. And the mystics have insisted that there is a 'spiritual sun' as well as the physical sun...
Nihil timendum est
