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Originally Posted by ronrabbit
Please please please stop making physics cry.....
Light is a common name for photons, usually classified a visible light, but can be a general term for any em radiation... Photons are not some incomprehensible concept that science doesn't understand properly....it's pretty simple, they are quanta of energy that exhibit both frequency and wavelength, amongst other characteristics...
The speed of light, is a thing 3.0*10^8 roughly....and is a fundamental constant throughout the universe...relativity tells us nothing can travel faster than this relative to another object....again not some weird concept that science doesn't understand.
The Mickelson moreley experiment was derived from a time in science when it was believed there was an aether needed to mediate forces, such as gravity, which seemingly act instantaneously....the experiment of course found no evidence for an aether.....
At the time this was an important discovery, or lack there of, but now we have moved well beyond this.
Quantum field theory, entanglement, and simple wave function propagation can explain these interactions with relative ease and the need for an aether is no longer relevant.....
Science making progress......
If you want to discuss the metaphorical connotations of the word light, and what it means in a spiritual term then fine. But the physics of this is all pretty basic stuff, so for God's sake stop getting it so badly wrong
Oh and fwiw colour is just different wavelength photons that we have attributed arbitrary names to, such as red (~600nm) green (~450nm) blue (~350nm)....it doesn't mean anything else.
This is the only thing that has made sense in this thread, and that is the difference between science and religion. If you destroyed all the knowledge and books on science and religion, in 10,000 years all the science books would be back, exactly as they are now, including the above description of photons, color and light.
Exactly zero of the religions would have their books come back, but there would be new ones with completely different history, beliefs and scriptures.
Even with all that said, I actually believe in God, however the Bible is just man’s interpretation of the word and thus fallible and should be questioned just like Aesop’s fables. To put so much stake in the Bible and not God is a mistake if not blasphemous, and to ignore science is to ignore God’s creation.
I’m sure most of you in this thread think you’re intelligent but to the outside world you guys have the scientific and philosophical musings of young teenagers.