For Lightworkers
-- across Time and Space
Many know that Einstein posed
a revolutionary question to himself over a hundred years ago: what's it
like to ride on a ray of light? Few have really considered the answer he
came up with: instantaneous!
From the viewpoint of light,
there is no interval of spacetime from one end of a light ray to the other.
At the speed of light, time slows to zero. No time at all passes for the
photon, and the instant it leaves is the same instant it arrives!
Same with space. At the speed
of light, space contracts to a point of no dimension. A photon traverses
no distance at all!
Relativity points out that
the perception of a light ray traveling from, say, a star to, say, your
eye is just that - a perception. How much spacetime appears as space and
how much appears as time changes in a very specific ratio to the relative
motion of the observer. Perception creates the interval of spacetime through
which light moves! In the world of light, there is no space or time.
So, tonight under dark of the
new moon, when you step outside and look up at the Great Galaxy in the constellation
Andromeda, know that your retinas are collecting photons that have crossed
2,200,000 light years to Earth. Long before sapiens evolved, those light
rays departed Andromeda, already knowing that you are here. |