Light

 

The paradox of light goes beyond wave-particle duality

"Light is the most mysterious of all things we know exist. 

Light is not matter; it is both wave and particle — 

and it's the fastest thing in the Universe. 

We are only beginning to understand light's secrets."

"Light is a paradox. It is associated with wisdom and knowledge, with the divine. The Enlightenment proposed the light of reason as the guiding path toward truth.'"

"But light is weird. We cannot touch it the way we touch air or water. It is a thing that is not a thing, or at least it is not made of the stuff we associate with things."

"In the early 1800s Thomas Young, who also helped decipher the Rosetta Stone, performed beautiful experiments showing how light diffracted as it passed through small slits, just like water waves were known to do. Light would move through the slit and the waves would interfere with one another, creating bright and dark fringes. Atoms couldn’t do that."

"Maxwell concluded that light is an electromagnetic wave. The distance between two consecutive crests is a wavelength. Red light has a longer wavelength than violet light. But the speed of any color in empty space is always the same. Why is it about 186,000 miles per second? No one knows. The speed of light is one of the constants of nature, numbers we measure that describe how things behave."

(There are no absolute truths people like to say...

Lets see...

The number pi

The speed of light...

etc...It's a faulty argument, there are most certianly absolute truths.)

"The young Einstein, bold and visionary, put forth an outrageous idea. Light can be a wave, sure. But it can also be made of particles."

"Einstein won the Nobel prize for this idea. He essentially suggested what we now call the wave-particle duality of light, showing that light can be both particle and wave and will manifest differently depending on the circumstance. The photons — our light bullets — are the quanta of light, the smallest light packets possible. Einstein thus brought quantum physics into the theory of light, showing that both behaviors are possible."

"Light is both particle and wave, 

and it is the fastest thing in the cosmos. 

It carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand. 

But understanding its duality was an important step for our perplexed minds.'

1 Timothy 6:15-16

'...which God will bring about in his own time—God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever. Amen."

Psalm 74:16-17

"The day is yours, and yours also the night;

    you established the sun and moon.

It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth;

    you made both summer and winter."

"all the boundaries of the earth..."

Doesn't just mean physical boundaries.

It also means

Some things were just not gonna figure out.