Have you ever noticed that the only thing visible in our universe is actually totally invisible.
That’s what was passing through the mind of Vikid early one morning.
Light, that glorious thing that no one could quite work out, what was it? A wave or particle? Particle of what? Waving in what?
It was enigma that made looking at the majesty of fireworks possible, that were the stars in the night sky, the sun which allowed plants to grow, the ultimate source of our food. It was how your smart phone got the internet, how satellites communicated and how you were reading this article, right now.
And it was Invisible!
Think about the radio. The light, also known as electromagnetic radiation, is invisible. That’s easy to understand, it’s intuitive. You may know that the frequency of radio waves is well below what a human eye can see, thus its invisibility is taken as given. You need a radio to “see” that spectrum of the light…
But even the light we can see, take the light of the sun, is actually invisible too.
You can’t see it except for in one condition:
The light has to enter your eyeball and hit your retina.
The light has to touch you.
Any light that doesn’t do this, is completely invisible. If it passes by you, you wouldn’t know it is there, even if you had the best instruments on earth.
Imagine the curiosity of this fact. It’s as if the only way of watching a football game is if the ball actually hit you.
Nothing else behaves like this.
The only way anything knows anything about light is if it smacked by it.
And when the light finally does smack you…
It’s gone.
There no longer is any light. There is no trace of it. The magician has left the room.
The only evidence it was ever there is the scintillating vibrations in your nerve cells. If it is camera film, a few bits of silver have been flipped or perhaps the surface the light hit is a little bit hotter than before. And heat is movement.
The light itself is gone. Vanished. Non existent.
You can’t see light.
Look around you right now. Perhaps you think you are seeing all the light in the world or room you are sitting in. You are not. All you think you “see”, is the tiny amount that enters your iris. A sliver of a sliver. Outside, it’s an infinite of chaos. Quadrillions of light wavicles doing their thing, in every which direction, totally invisible. Of the tiny amount that enters, even less titillates some cells in your eye, the nerves send some electrical impulses into your brain. What goes on in there is anyone’s guess. The outcome is a virtual reality display with you as the first person character. The “you” is very much as much of the creation as what you “see”.
Which got Vikid thinking about God. He/She was a bit like the light too. A light unto this world, some might say… While being everywhere, you really never got to see him. Unless he directly smacked you. Then he vanished. Poof! Things moved. The universe was created. But you never got to see the universe from the outside and you never got to see the prime mover. Ever.
Everybody also disagrees about what god really is. Is he some man with a beard in the cloud? The holder of lightening? An intelligence incorporeal? Pure love? A force? Etc… etc…
You could choose whatever myth you wanted. Put faith in any story you wished. Create grand institutions around them. Vikid doubted that god cared. Many would disagree.
Others such as Vikid (being a superhero had its advantages) had met god on several occasions, in so many different forms that such talk about what (he) is was incoherent and would lead to accusations of heresy or madness.
Light was in-visible, you never saw it, only witnessed the effect, the purest aspect of its creator. The purest of those effects was in your heart.
and that’s,
Set me thinking about light and other things...
The conscious light within that connects you to The Light