I have finally found out how
light moves and why it travels so fast, the easiest explanation I found was
this.
“Light is, essentially, a
self-propagating pulse of information that tells us that the state of some
electromagnetic field has been altered somewhere in space.”
Essentially, white light is the
disturbance that our brains can use to see, as well as being the essential part of life, especially for plants.
Infrared light gives us warmth; radio waves mean we can communicate over
distances, and so on and so forth. To put
it basic terms, light or the electromagnetic field, is a quirky disturbance in the
Universe that we know very little about, but from this amazing disturbance
through universal evolution, we came to exist, and without it, we would not.
I suppose the question or perhaps
questions I would ask. We know we need
this disturbance to exist. Is it
essential for everything to exist? Can
things exist without an electromagnetic disturbance? Can they exist with only the
disturbance? Do they need water and
Oxygen (though you could argue that we would not have water or Oxygen without
the disturbance)?
Did the disturbance start the big
bang? Did it happen after the big bang? I suppose it is one of those chicken and egg
situations. I believe the disturbance
has been there for eternity, even before the big bang. Perhaps not as we know it now, then through
some sort of evolutionary change, similar to a change in environment we know assists
in our evolutionary timeline, the big bang started what we know as the known
universe.
You could make an argument that
in our reality, light, or the electromagnetic field, the disturbance, is the
nearest thing to God, if you were so inclined to think that way. It created us over time, it gives us life, and
without it, we would not exist.
Over time, I believe if people
still want to believe in a creator, if they still need the concept and the
thought of some almighty being giving us life and looking out for us. A benevolent, omnipresent, omnipotent entity,
then you can look no further than Light, the disturbance in our reality. In fact, if you think back well before
religion to the beginning of initial human thinking of why we exist, we thought
of light as god, the sun was one of the first deities and what is the sun from
our perspective back then, but light.
