The shall the light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily. Isaiah 58:8
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matthew 5:14-16
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. Luke 1:79
No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth is in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light. Luke 11:33
Let your lions be girded about, and your lights burning. Luke 12:35
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. John 1:5&8
Men loved darkness more than light, because their deeds were evil. John 3:19
He was a burning and a shining light. John 5:35
And I saw other lightnings and the stars of heaven, and I saw how He called them all by their names and they hearkened unto Him. And I saw how they are weighed in a righteous balance according to their proportions of light: (I saw) the width of their spaces and the day of their appearing, and how their revolution produces lightning: and (I saw) their revolution according to the number of the angels, and (how) they keep faith with each other. Enoch 2:43:1-3
Light’s finite speeds shows us a window on the past. Brian Cox, Wonders of the Universe: Messengers, BBC 2011
Hubble allows us to peer back to almost the start of Time itself ... When it peered to the very edge of the visible universe it captured these images, and saw that every galaxy glows red. ibid.
The Big Bang – it happened everywhere at the same time. ibid.
Light is our window on the universe … we can explore worlds beyond our solar system. Forces of Nature with Brian Cox IV: The Pale Blue Dot, BBC 2016
The moonbow isn’t just beautiful, it’s physics. ibid.
Last month an international group of scientists working here on a particle physics experiment ... made an astonishing claim: they said they had detected particles that seemed to travel faster than the speed of light. It was a claim that contradicted more than a hundred years of scientific orthodoxy. Professor Marcus du Sautoy, Faster than the Speed of Light? BBC 2011
This medium was given a name – the Ether. It was thought that the Ether was able to flow like the wind. ibid.
Einstein said ... the speed of light is a constant ... regardless of where you measure it from. ibid.
Einstein said mass and energy were two sides of the same coin. ibid.
According to Einstein it’s impossible to cross the speed of light barrier. ibid.
The neutrino – if there was one particle that was going to break the rules it was this one. ibid.
In June 1956 [Frederick] Rinus announced he had detected the neutrino. ibid.
As the neutrinos smashed into the lead nucleus they created charged particles which are detected as tiny flashes of light. ibid.
Nobody had anticipated what happened when they started measuring how long it took the neutrinos to arrive. They seemed to arrive early. Earlier than the laws of physics allowed. ibid.
When the news broke it caused a sensation. ibid.
Einstein’s theory respects the relationship between cause and effect. ibid.
The MINOS neutrinos did seem to be moving faster than the speed of light. ibid.
At stake is one of the greatest prizes of science – a theory of everything. ibid.
Tachyons are pretty strange – most notably, their mass is an imaginary number ... If a particle is formed when it’s already travelling faster than the speed of light then it gets past this problem. ibid.
The stage is set for a major challenge to Einstein. ibid.
The neutrino has been the bad boy of Physics. Professor Joao Magueijo, Imperial College London
So raising the speed limit can be exactly the missing ingredient for explaining the Big Bang. Professor Joao Magueijo
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights. Bram Stoker, Dracula
He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i’ th’ centre and enjoy bright day;
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun. John Milton, Comus l381
Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn!
Or of th’ eternal co-eternal beam,
May I express thee unblam’d? since God is light
And never but in unapproached light
Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee,
Bright effluence of bright essence increate! John Milton, Paradise Lost III i
There swift return
Diurnal, merely to officiate light
Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot. ibid. VIII:32
Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. John Milton, Il Penseroso l79
A remnant of uneasy light. William Wordsworth, The Matron of Jedborough, and Her Husband
The light that never was on sea or land,
The consecration, and the poet’s dream. William Wordsworth, Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by picture of Peele Castle in storm
There’s a group at MIT who have been developing this process actually have been photographing light itself. Dara O’Briain’s Science Club s2e2: Adventures in Time, Mark, BBC 2013
We don’t even know why there is cosmic speed limit ... What is light anyway? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey V: Hiding in the Light, Fox 2014
The universe is full of breathtaking sights. Glimpse through powerful telescopes. But will we ever travel to these places of wonder and see them with our own eyes? Now scientists are designing warp-drives … They must break the fundamental law of physics: can we travel faster than light? Morgan Freeman’s Through the Wormhole s2e8: Can We Travel Faster Than Light? Science 2011
There is one snag: a warp drive can only function with a mysterious power source: negative energy. ibid.
The emergence of artificial light would be the single most dramatic change in our planet’s appearance. How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson s1e4: Light, BBC 2018
1659 Massachusetts: The farmers would soon discover a new source of artificial light … within the body of a whale … The prize was the whale’s blubber … to bring a brand-new type of light to the world. ibid.
By the 1800s our fascination with artificial light had created a melting pot of inventions and ideas. ibid.
Edison employs the brightest minds of his time. ibid.
Giant neon displays are even seen as a new form of art. ibid.
Lasers have come to enable so much in our daily life. ibid.
At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion. Johannes Stark