09-17-2010, 04:49 PM
(09-14-2010, 04:04 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote:(09-03-2010, 11:39 PM)Poffo Wrote: Assuming a vacuum clear of gravitationally significant bodies, light would travel in a straight line, but interestingly it is made of these two sine wave fields that move in and out of each other, and the waves can be described as the plot of points on a circle.
So, you could think of a circle as representing the infinite whole, in that it can be a container for ALL and also that there is no real beginning or ending point to it. We also could say that what we know of as white light contains all the colours of the visible light spectrum and is thus a unity of finite elements.
I hope this made some sense!
Wow, Poffo, I just now finally read your post. I confess I was a little intimidated at first, but you've explained it so well, I actually think I got it! I never thought of a circle as an infinite polygon - that really does clear up the paradox! Thanks!
Ok, good to know!
One interesting thing I've realized since making those posts, was that the lenticular shape is defined by the inner part of the vesica piscis (2 circles interlocked at each other's center point):
![[Image: vesica_pisces.gif]](http://www.smeddum.net/images/articles/vesica_pisces.gif)
As shown in the image, it also contains the square roots of 2, 3, and 5 (if considering the horizontal radius joining the two circles as having the value of 1). This is important because the square root of 2 defines 2D space (as the value of the diagonal of a square vs. one of its sides), and the square root of 3 is the inner diagonal of a cube/3D space (where any side is also 1, like the square). The square root of 5 is fundamental to the golden ratio which is (1+sqrt5)/2.
Anyway, quite off topic at this point, but just thought I'd share my observations

