Asterion
Ruler of the Stars
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- May 6, 2009
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How odd we would describe light as transferring data. We might as well say a sunset is transferring data, or the light in our lover's eyes is transferring data, or that the light on a movie screen is merely transferring data.
We could say we are having a conversation or say we are merely transferring data.
And I think it is the 'merely' that gives the game away. 'Transferring data' is in fact pejorative. It is putting down magic. It hates the magic of light and turns magic into 'transferring data'.
'Transferring data' is something a depressive would say. It depresses us. It saps our spirit. It fits us for a boring job of transferring data, when we could be having a conversation, or sculpting in light, or discovering the unknown.
'Transferring data' immures us in a cubicle entering data into the keyboard.
'Transferring data' is part of the authoritarian, literate world - the linear sequential world. Whereas, to our eyes, light happens all at once. The speed of light is so fast, we can't even see it, yet it enables us to see everything else.
Light burst forth from the dark universe about 13.7 billion years ago, and it has been travelling ever since, right to our very eyes, where it makes itself at home.
No wonder the Australian Government sees it appropriate to bring light to every Australian home.
I disagree, transfering data is an amazing ability, it is magical in itself, because data is energy. When you see something or have a conversation, you impart and exchange your energy. It is present at every scale of nature, the only reason that we exist is because everything else exists and is capable of exchanging information with us to confirm our existance.
Light is a Boson, and it's not the only Boson. This is particularly special, because it is the only boson we've found as of yet. There are scientists who have predicted the existance of other Bosons, and these Bosons transfer the fundamental forces (ie. gravity, electricity and magnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces). For example, Gravitons are predicted to exchange back and forth between interacting matter, if these gravitons exist, then you and I are exchanging them right now, and same goes for everyone. The Higgs Boson, which we hope to discover using the Large Haedron Collider, is thought to be responsible for the communication of magnetic and electric energy between charged particles, which again in a similar way to that of gravitrons connects me and you and everyone and everything in the world together.
Doesn't that make data transfer more amazing than just some guy typing numbers into a spread sheet?