Happy recluse wrote:.......I understand that. I don't think I'm making my point clearly. ...................... However, all observers see light moving at the same rate because the length of a second for a beam of light is always the same. If the endurance of second is always the same for beams of light, then those seconds are absolute in the sense that they are always the same, and they are always seen to be the same.
If you want to know how long a second lasts, you cannot look at your own clock. You cannot look at someone else's clock. You can look at the speed of light and always know how long a second truly lasts. Thus, the true and absolute length of a second is that found in the speed of light.
OK. Thanks for explaining that. And the "official" method to confirm the length of a meter is via light speed as well.
There is something that makes relative light-speed constant and unrelated to the movement of the source.
Granth wrote:Although light doesn't "speed" or travel. Sensory perception perceives time and therefore perceives speed. Sensory perception is like a filter of what things actually are. It is a necessary limitation because perception is motion and therefore sees objects from this motion perspective. Light is still. The sense of sight cannot respond to stillness. That which the eyes “feel” and believe to be Light is but wave motion simulating the idea of Light. Like all things else in this electric wave universe the idea of Light cannot be produced. Electric waves simulate idea only. They do not become idea. When man sees the light of the sun he believes that he is actually seeing light when the nerves of his eyes are but “feeling” the intense, rapid, short- wave vibrations of the kind of wave motion which he senses as incandescence. The intensely vibrant electric current mirrored into the senses of the eyes fairly burns them. They cannot stand that high rate of vibration. The eyes would be destroyed by such a vibration but light would not be the cause of that destruction. Fast motion, simulating light, would be the cause. It would be like sending a high voltage electric current over a wire, so fine that the current would burn it out.
Man likewise cannot see darkness. The nerves of his eyes, which sense motion, slow down to a rate of vibration that he can no longer “feel.”Man is so accustomed to the idea that he actually sees light in various intensities illuminating various substances to greater or lesser degree that it is difficult for him to realize that his own senses are but acting as mirrors to reflect various intensities of wave motion. But that is all that is happening.
Every electrically conditioned thing in Nature reflects the vibrations of every other thing, to fulfill its desire to synchronize its vibrations with every other thing. All matter is the motion of light. All motion is expressed in waves. All light waves are mirrors that reflect each other’s condition unto the farthermost star.
This is an electrically conditioned wave universe. All wave conditions are forever seeking oneness. For this reason all sensation responds to all other sensation.
Sorry to have broken the news to those I haven't already broken this news to previously. Those who wish to believe that light speeds around the place please free to ignore this information.
So let's look at what light really is and what it is really doing...There are 2 types of energy arrangements, let's call them Matter & Light.
Matter contains an acceleration force that we call mass. This causes the energy to become oriented with other mass via a "tethering" that we refer to as gravity.
Light has no internal acceleration and so it does not become oriented, or reoriented, or tethered to other Light.
Light:Matter
is analogous to Wake:Ship.
The ship is on a course through 2-dimensional space (surface plane of ocean) along a line of travel. Its wake spreads away from the course, 2-dimensionally from each point along this line.
The Matter is on a course through 3-dimensional space (sphere of expansion) along a line of travel. Its wake spreads away from the course, 3-dimensionally from each point along this line.
The key idea is
expansion. Specifically, spherical expansion. This is not "cosmic expansion" as currently perceived. Cosmic expansion is a relative expansion of galaxies. This spherical expansion is the underlying reason behind cosmic expansion. It is also the reason that existence is possible at all and makes "seeing" possible. Actually, it is the "differential expansion" that makes this all happen;
Radius:Sphere
is analogous to Matter:Light
Matter is a wave. Waves must move to exist. Where is the source of the matter waves? Reverse extrapolation of observed data suggests a singularity. Unless there is some reason to prefer one path over another, it can be assumed that equal radial movement, away from a singularity, will create an expanding sphere.
Light is like a wake. On a lake, we have 2 moving boats. They travel past each other. We see that each boat creates a wake along its path. The wake starts at the boat and goes all the way across the lake
until it hits the shore OR the other boat. When it hits the shore or other boat it transfers its energy into that medium and the medium reflects, absorbs or in some other way, "uses that energy". The wakes that hit other wakes, are able to "move through each other" and continue their paths, (the energy is not transferred as it would be in a Matter collision).
Same thing with Light. Emitted from Matter and continues its spherical expansion wake until it again meets Matter.
So to understand Light, we can compare it to the differential expansion of a radius to its sphere.
If a radius is growing in length at a fixed speed, it causes an associated fixed volumetric growth. This volumetric growth is equivalent along any radial within the overall sphere.
So we (Matter) "exist through time" by traveling a radius of an expanding sphere. This speed is the "speed of light". It doesn't really matter what that "actual" speed is, it is really the "special relativity", of the radius to its sphere, that creates the appearance of a "constant speed of light".
Light does not travel in "rays". Each wavelength of a "ray" is an expanding sphere wave front. (Side note: while the light always expands spherically, it can be "shaped" by shadowing parts of the expansion with matter.) When this expanding spherical wave front collides at our eye, we see a tangential perpendicular of energy (commonly visualized as a photon). So what we are seeing as "a ray" is actually a series of tangential points on a series of spheres, each one initiated at a later time position.
