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An article that attempts to provide a new perspective on the nature of light.
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The Nature of LIGHT
A common experience has left me with some questions about some of the properties possessed by the light that is seen on Earth.
When watching videos of cars driving through a tunnel, I have noticed an unusual scene.
As the vehicle pass through the tunnel, the light at the end of the tunnel seen by passengers
grows larger and brighter as the end of the tunnel is approached.. Then, as the vehicles pass through the end of the tunnel, a blinding cloud of light energy is encountered. It seems as if this cloud of light energy is somehow blocked from entering the tunnel.
How can this unusual phenomenon be explained?
A possible answer to this question might be that the light energy emitted by the Sun travels in a expansive, cohesive, form. If so, this possibility suggests that light is prevented from expanding due to the presence of the tunnel walls. Then, this trapped cloud of light would slowly be absorbed by the surrounding atmosphere,maintaining the cloud-like feature. Thus, we could imagine that, rather than
moving through space in a rapid, straight-line fashion, light would, instead, travel with a spherical front. It is hard to imagine that light traveling through space could have such an immensely lage rate of movement without some driving force controls the rate of movement of light.
An alternate possibility might be that since light has been constantly emitted by the Sun since its formation, our Solar System would have long been occupied by light being emitted by the Sun. Would light be emitted at a much slower velocity, then be driven by the Solar Wind ? Would the velocity of light be lower than is generally accepted?
One could even theorize that for each photon of light emitted by the Sun another photon traveling a great distance from the Sun would be absorbed and complete its journey. Thus, it might even be said that the movement of light energy is beyond measurement on its journey through the Solar System.
One might compare the movement of light to the movement of waves over the surface of water. The water has an up and down movement as the wind passes over the surface of the water. The wind is the active force causing movement of water. Similarly, movement of light may also be considered to have a wave-like, up and down motion
, without any forward movement..
I have often observed the moon at night, when it is full and brightly lit, wondering about the source of light appears in the dark of night. It is different when compared to the visibility of the moon during the day, when it is a pale shade of gray or white, when the Moon is bathed in sunlight. What would be the source of light which we see at night.
One possibility that comes to mind is that early in the history of the Solar System, the Moon was formed in a sea of light, already presentin space, early in the history of the formation of the universe. Would the formation of the Moon cause an accumulation of light energy on its surface as the Moon occupies the space once occupied by light energy? The replaced light would then remain on the surface of the moon, resulting in the condition we see at night.
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Ron