Decades before I was born, it was proven that the speed of light is constant... and I find this to be the most fascinating discovery.
Einstein in his search for a unified theory of everything that ever existed theorized "Special Relativity". The first principle is that the rules of space time are the same everywhere. This paves the way for things like the large hadron collider, because if it can happen in a controlled environment even on a tiny scale, it can happen everywhere in all of existence.
The second principle Einstein thought up was the constant speed of light. The implications of this are BIZZARE! Imagine throwing a ball as hard as you can, naturally you want to get a running start on the throw.. even instinctively we know that if we throw an object while moving it picks up additional speed. In the same idea, if you didn't throw but dropped an object out side of a car while on the high way, that object moves at the same speed of the car, which could be very fast even if you didn't throw it at all.
Well.. this isn't true with light. Light always always and always moves at the same speed. There is no fast or slow light. In fact, if you could move at the speed of light, you would never be able to see what's behind you because no light would ever reach you. It would appear that you were being chased by infinite darkness. This nightmarish conclusion is special relativity.
So why do I find constant speed of light intriguing beyond it being a scientific theory that ties no relation to my everyday not travelling at the speed of light self? Well, God (Allah, Jehova, the Creator, what have you) tried to put us up on the significance of light. In many religious text, the story is the same, he spoke light into existence.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
The word "heavens" has many context and one of the most normalized is space. This can be broken down into "God made a canvas, and then God drew some stuff on that canvas". More reason to believe that he is more artisan than engineer.
There's no fall back to this. It wouldn't had been so interesting is God's first act was drafting a blueprint for everything. Just like a tree grows in the direction that it wants to move, God takes a decisive and absolute stance toward making the universe the reality he wants it to be.
The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
Not only is the creator an artist, he is an abstract artist. He's that person that takes a bucket of paint and throws and it at the wall, not mastering the brush, but mastering the trajectory of his throw.
I wish we could all live such a forgiving life. Imagine not being able to make any mistakes. You wake up everyday and no matter what you do, there are only benefits to be had. No matter what you did, and no matter how well you did it, it was a good thing. This is how we should learn to treat each other, stop guilting one another with our shortcomings, because life is good.
Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
The first words that God ever speaks are the words of light. I dropped this knowledge in a verse (because I believe hip hop and poetry don't have to be separated as if heaven and earth).
Sound is a vibration. It wasn't stated that God created vibration, it's just an inherent quality of existence. Does this mean that vibration preceded God? Maybe it means that God is vibration, an energy cycle. Or maybe, God is the source of vibration and we all exist in his echo.
The point is that God spoke light and light happened. Lights origins are not native to this universe god created, he summoned light, a it was inserted here. Much like giving a vaccine, light was injected into this system of heavens and earth where as darkness had already arrived.
God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.…
It's important to note that the matter blobs that were being created were created in absolute darkness. When you can't see, you have to feel. Sometimes, feeling is the only was to know that you are making a good decision.
All being considered, light absorbed all darkness in it's first state. There weren't any shadows. God decided that there needed to be shadows, remnants of the darkness that came before all creation. So as you go about your life trying to figure out why bad things happen, consider that all things cannot be good, because good was separated from the not good almost immediately.
"Light is the shadow of God.." - Plato
From every bit of knowledge I've acquired it's always been my conclusion that God does not exist in this world, and as a matter of fact since he creates both heaven and earth from some unknown location, God does not even exist in heaven. It would make sense that our creator viewing us from a higher dimension.
We, as three dimensional creatures, spend our time creating on two dimensional surfaces. We can never jump into our creation. Even in three dimensional simulations that should be compatible with our reality, we can only make sense of them through two dimensional images (screens and stereo-optic effects). We can't exist in the same reality that we create, and that reality has to be a lower dimension.
Following the creation of heaven and earth, the creator moves around it without effort, much like there's no issue to move a pencil from one part of the paper to the next. Further more, light itself didn't existence until the vibrations existed, and possibly, light is only the after effect of vibrations that originated from a much higher plane.
For Plato's quote to be true would mean that God is a being that creates a shadow, and that God is beholding a much greater light that is separated from himself. The only such thing that would fit that bill would be "truth". I've never seen evidence of truth and God being entangled. Sure, God is good and does good things, but being true is of almost no concern. If so, with the ability to create an entire universe it would be no issue to make it impossible to question whether God exist, it would just be true. Like ice is cold, and fire burns, creation would be seen as not only a property of God's existence but proof thereof.. yet instead we have no proof. We're left to put together a narrative from his echoes ("let there be light..").
I don't think it was God's intentions to stand in between our existence and absolute truth, its just causality in this being the only place we can verify we exist; on a piece of paper amongst the heavens and underneath his divine pencil, contemplating what's on the other side of the page...
