I am the Light...

Or maybe what is light anyways. After reading a few pop culture particle physics books, and some not so pop, the 2-slit experiment, as far as I can tell, is still a mystery. We live for bunches of photons on those clear nights, but I must admit, the more I read about light, the less I understand 8O

Not wanting to stray to far off point, I've read that time as we know it doesn't count for light. From the light particle's point of view, a trip across the universe takes as long as a trip across the face of an atom. That lenght of time to the light particle is zero. The concept of time is meaningless for a light particle or wave, pick your flavor.

What strikes me is that Jesus said I am the light, maybe a metaphor such as a light at the end of a tunnel, light = hope, etc.

But us humans would not want our supernatural beings to wear a watch, as though they could be affected by time.

BTW, what is time, really. Something that fills the voids in an expanding universe?

Just a thot.

DCR

David:

If you want to give your head a real twirl pick up "The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics" by Julian Barbour.

I read it a couple of years ago and if you can wrap your mind around the matrix analogies it makes a very interesting read.

He feels there is really no such thing as time. That time exists present, past and future simultaneously and the perceived passage is our transition from one frame to another. The "frames" are extremely short instances of time like down to the Planks time period.

Keep in mind, this guy is no slouch. He's a highly respected physicist.

Go slow when he's talking about the multi-dimensional matrices and the book will fall into place.

Darrell

Hi David,

The easiest way to understand what Jesus means by the phrase "I am the light", it to look at how the Bible uses light as a metaphor.

Throughout the Bible, light is used as a metaphor for knowledge and understanding of God and salvation. Darkness is used in contrast to light, for those who do not understand (willingly or otherwise) about God and salvation.

So what Jesus is meaning, (and would have been clearly understood by his hearers) was that if anyone wants to know about God and salvation, they should listen to what he was saying and teaching.

Regards,

Maurice