light’s a particle
that has no mass, not there, light
therefore is color
I had the radio on the other day and a scientist was trying to explain what Mr. Einstein’s equation,
meant in a way most folks could understand it.
He said that E or Energy equaled the mass or weight of the speed of light or light particles squared.
As light had no mass, it was just bits of energy.
Lots of bits of energy.
I then picked up a history if the British ship of the line, HMS Temeraire, a ship that fought at the Battles of the Nile and Trafalger but is best remembered for being in the JMW Turner painting, The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up painted in 1838.
IN 2005, this painting in a suvey by the BBC, was announced to be Britain’s Favorite Painting.
So much so that it was chosen to be on the new British 20 Pound note along with the quote from Mr. Turner that Light is color or Light therefore is color.
After hearing the explanation of E and M and C and squared that got me thinking.
I tried to track down Mr. Turner’s exact quote.
The statement, everyone online agrees, was made in a lecture at the Royal Academy in 1818.
Mr. Turner lectured at the Royal Academy on Light, Color and Perspective.
In the book, Colour in Turner : poetry and truth by John Gage (Studio Vista, London, 1969), Mr. Gage has the quote:
Light is therefore color, and shadow the privation of it by the removal of these rays of color, or subduction of power; and these are to be found throughout nature in the ruling principles of diurnal variations. The grey dawn, the yellow morning and red departing ray, in ever changing combination, are constantly found to be by subduction or inversion of the ray or their tangents.
But he cites the 1820 Pamphlet, Aesthetics, or the Analogy of the Sensible Sciences Indicated by George Field.
There is no indication if Mr. Field is quoting Mr. Turner directly or making his own summation.
SO there it ends for today.
Light is therefore color, and shadow the privation of it by the removal of these rays of color, or subduction of power; and these are to be found throughout nature in the ruling principles of diurnal variations.
The grey dawn, the yellow morning and red departing ray, in ever changing combination, are constantly found to be by subduction or inversion of the ray or their tangents.
Lights are bits of energy.
There color is bits of energy and sometimes suspended, caught in time on canvas or by camera in a way that we can look at still and marvel at the energy
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