"radiation transmits inertia between emitting and absorbing bodies"
Albert Einstein
"The equation E=mc^2 connects intangibility and tangibility and by making them equivalent, joins them as one. Energy and mass are different and it is the speed of light that brings them together."
Einstein 1905 The Standard of Excellence John S. Rigden
Rather than saying that the speed of light is constant, though it is generally so, it is more accurate to say that the speed of light is the speed limit for the universe.
In fact, nothing is permitted to go even that fast, except light itself. If time and gravity, as I have said, are how we feel the pre-time force which is the luminiferous ether (that Faraday and Maxwell quite properly believed exists), then light is that matter with the least mass. It is quite possibly the direct precursor to or co-factor with the smallest quantum level particle destined to become subatomic particles, then atoms, then more complex structures.
A local disturbance in the space/time fabric, the mother field, which is also the ether, creates an exciter or matter of the most exquisite and ephemeral quality, which is the catalyst to lighten and warm the material creation.
Light is permitted to make waves, so to speak. God grants light the ability to move through the ether without any force of its own. Light is moving inertial energy. The packet of light, which physicists call the photon, is born with the wave to be seen even a million million miles away.
Light's movement is carried along by the time wind or time stream in which it moves at its appointed speed, bearing light to lighten the darkness.
Light is answerable to the Creator. It is minimally influenced by the material creation, though a beam of light is bent by gravity, and of course, light may be absorbed, reflected or refracted. Light willingly gives itself in love to lighten and warm.
Bear in mind that I am talking about light, which is just a very small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Some forms of the electromagnetic spectrum are more penetrative and pass through dense material rather than being reflected or even absorbed.
When it comes to electrical fields and magnetic fields, we have Maxwell's equations which state how these fields must behave. But light appears to more directly answerable to the Creator. We know its speed limit, and we know from the study of optics the reflective and refractive properties of light.
But when we begin to look at its wave characteristics--such as in the famous two slit experiment--we may actually be looking more at the what light permits us to see about the space time field in which it operates than about light itself.
If you dropped a pebble in a pond, you create a local disturbance. But what is most interesting are the waves that go out in concentric circles. They are a beautiful sight to behold.
Heat is the most frequent "creator of light." High heat and combustion send light in all directions, undoubtedly both as waves and packets of energy. High heat on the sun sends out electromagnetic radiation, including visible light, and that light travels 8 minutes through the supposed vacuum of space, bearing light which then warms and lights the surface of the earth.
Spiritual light is the regulating medium for the ether. Spiritual light is of Heavenly origin and it from God. Just as light in the material realm lightens and warms the creation, spiritual light does the same and more so in the spiritual realm.
The ether is regulated by commands and instructions from God. The orders of God contain vast incomprehensible amounts of meaning, design parameters, and encompass past and future. His orders are perfect and such orders bring into existence a perfect order.
It is for this reason that the future is foreknown--because His Divine commands contain all wisdom. Perfection in our realm is in detail, complexity, and in completion. Everything tends and moves toward an end or conclusion which is already encompassed and enfolded in the initial willed action.
God's perfect directives are perfect in detail, in effect, and also encompass past, present and future. They originate in the timeless realm. As such, logic dictates that their perfection would be so in past present and future, from beginning to end.
When God expresses His will to bring into being what He wants, His orders contain the paradigm and all organizing instructions to create, cause to grow and develop, and move toward its end. The preordained substance or events--which God foreknows and speaks into beginning to pass--also contain the necessary information and energy to gather, collate, and organize substance in the material real, as well as provision for the energy to carry out the birth and development of His intended consequence.
In other words, everything is there from the beginning. It is there in shape and design, and it is foreknown and foreshadowed what it will be.
In every part the whole. Every cell contains the pattern for the entire oak tree. It is thus that the present foreshadows the future, the past the present. We see this in operation in those special magic moments when we observe that "the boy is father to the man," and the girl to the woman.
It may be that light contains encoded information for growth and creation that we do not know of. Light is itself an exciter, which brings to life the seed and whose warmth nurtures and sustains the seedling. The plant is dependent on light, which it incorporates into itself and in the process of photosynthesis makes food.
The plant is a light created and light dependent organism. Similarly, we humans are also created and sustained by spiritual light from God. Earthly light permits our eyes to see. Spiritual light permits our mind to see and understand.
Warmth, growth, colors, and beauty are all associated with light in the material creation. Light is a created thing, created by God for His good purposes. Light reminds us that He created all things out of nothing. Light springs into existence seemingly from nowhere. Strike a match and light immediate bursts forth and radiates in all directions at 2.998 x 10^8 meters per second.
No other matter can do this. Other phenomena in the electromagnetic spectrum (such as radio waves, microwaves, x rays and so on) immediate propagate at light speed, but they are not light bearers. A microwave oven can heat something until it is so agitated and heated that flame bursts forth with light, but the microwave does not itself bear light.
Could it be that light was involved in the creation of the matter which we now are observing bursting forth flames of light? Could it be that the light that once participated in the birth and growth of the wood which now bursts forth as light and heat?
Remember, at one time there was no thing, no space and no time. There was the pre-time force of moving stillness. This pre-time force orbiting around the still center, like the winds of a hurricane, would by Divine command begin to move faster and faster.
This ether wind, still pre-time, reached incomprehensible speed and when it reached a certain critical velocity, eddies or whirlpools of swirling pre-time force begin to gain permanence as they lag in the faster moving time stream. This lagging effect results in space (as the time wind goes forth beyond the lagging primitive matter, as well as time and gravity in the moving ether wind.
Each eddy continued to spin and as it did so, it acquired a little pseudo mass (like a gyroscope) and perhaps already an electrical field.
It is interesting to note that a magnetic field is said to create electrical eddies in a plate positioned within the field. And these eddies bear witness to something like how the creation of whirlwind loci of matter may have occurred.
Also note that these electrical eddies on the surface of a plate in the magnetic field may resist the field, which is the operative principle in the electromagnetic brakes for trains and for roller coaster cars. This resistance may be analogous to the magneto-electrical creation of strong and weak forces, as well as gravity where steady state acceleration somehow transforms into regular gravity in the creation event.
This swirling mass created an electric field which now resisted the speed of the pre time wind. The whirlpool lagged behind in the river of time, thus bringing into existence time and space.
As you can see, this whirlpool is energy, the energy of the pre-time force, now with motion in time and space and with a whirling electrical field. It is now something. And this small primitive "something" is the smallest matter, it is electromagnetic force and it is light.
Light is the first, smallest and lightest matter in the material creation. As such it is the progenitor of all the rest. This feather light photon of light is a spinning whirling electrical ephemeral thing which by Divine command will acquire charge, and lump together to form tiny entities that will form electrons, protons, quarks and other specific entities which are the substance of atoms.
Light is visible because God wants us to see it. He wants us to see His creation, and to marvel and stand in awe of the Creator Whose handiwork is exquisitely beautiful. It is for this reason that he permits light to escape from matter in certain circumstances (such as when it is heated).
Believe it or not, you are actually seeing the first created substance, the first physical manifestation of the pre-time dark force and by it you also behold what the Creator wrought.
If electricity can heat matter to a point where light energy escapes, then light can also make electricity, which in fact we see in the photovoltaic effect. Solar light makes solar power; and solar light makes heat (such as when you focus light with a magnifying glass and cause a piece of paper to catch on fire), and from that fiery heat comes light again. Matter becomes energy and energy becomes matter.
Remember, sheer light is very close to being pure energy, though it does have a corpuscular aspect. Nevertheless, it is such an ethereal thing, carrying energy on a wave. It is the time wind or ether in which the perturbations produces a wave. This wave may carry light across the room from your living room lamp, millions of miles from the sun to earth to make glorious your roses, or across vast interstellar space from far away galaxies to light your night time sky with millions of twinkling stars.
Each color has its own frequency, and like the other phenomena on the electromagnetic spectrum, the higher the frequency the more the energy.
Frequency determines energy. And so it is that the Creator permits us to see energy in the form of color.
The very basics of matter and energy--the luminferous ether, geometric waves, and scintillating matter of the most exquisite smallness--are thus made visible to us in light of various colors.
Light is illumination and warmth; and it is also creative in a most subtle way, by permitting the receptive object of its affection to co-create with it. The dazzling diamond sparkles by reflecting and refracting light. Is it the diamond that sparkles or is it the light?
And the rose bush absorbs the light of the sun to make its beautiful roses for us to appreciate. Is it the rose or the light that creates the glorious splendor for us to behold?
Is it not both? Each a facet of the Creator's genius, and each needs the other to make the marvelous spectacle that the Creator had in mind, so that we might take delight and also be mindful of Him.
Light itself is bright when it is emitted or reflected, and it is warm when it is absorbed.
It is obviously to me that light is borne by something. Just how does light leap forth from your flashlight and instantaneously reach light speed? It is carried along, like a leaf in a fast moving stream, by the omni directional mother field composed of literal lines of force precessing like string winding around a ball of string at most likely millions of times the speed of light. Light has a love affair with this ether field as it is carried along and restrained and regulated by the linearly opposing invisible line of force, passing one through another like invisible trains in opposite directions.
It is indeed worth noting that the waxing and waning electromagnetic waves accompany but do not fully define what light is. They are evidence of a remarkable immaterial medium which bears light, its first born in the material realm, and in whose gentle field its pride and joy, light, roams and brings the signals of light and warmth. The rolling lapping and propagating waves are the cause of the effects of the movement of light in the ether, just as gravity, time and space are effects of matter lagging in the ether time wind stream.
These effects are associated phenomena defining and explaining what we sense, and for which geometric design and mathematical descriptions permit us to study and use the effects for good purpose. Matter is required for the effects to take place. We then measure the effects, quite properly, of one physical phenomenon relative to another. We look for symmetry in the material realm.
To glimpse insight into the timeless spiritual realm, we must look for correspondences between the spiritual and the material. For example, just as electromagnetism has two sides and both are needed; so truth must have love associated with it. Likewise, for the plant to sprout and grow, it needs both light and warmth. In the winter there is only light. But in the spring, there is both light and warmth. If God is truth and love, then it is not surprising that He would include some derivative of truth and love in everything He does and everything He creates. Can you see the correspondences between truth and love in word and deed, light and warmth, plan and action, and intellect and will.
We cannot measure the field because it is not material. But we can observe its effect on light which it bears at light speed, as well as light's effects on other objects, and we can feel and measure the field's pressure as gravity pressure upon created mass, and we can marvel at how the mother field sustains its creation, even electrons which it spins and keeps spinning after all these years.
Read about time/space in an excerpt from
The Majesty and Mystery of Time - God's Cosmological Constant
Light is both to see and to be seen. It illuminates everything, and yet light itself is shrouded in mystery. It makes things comprehensible but it defies comprehension. Much of the workings of the Creator's magic are hidden from view. But light is His personal creative tool made manifest, and done so that we may see not only it but also the creation which it illuminates and warms.
By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. Hebrews 11:3
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. Genesis 1
To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
. . . .
I am God, and there is none like me,
Declaring the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times the things
that are not yet done . . . Isaiah 46
We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
No, we speak of God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.
None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. . . . .but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. . . . .For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. . . .
“For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?” 1 Corinthians 2
