Lux Eternal
Have you ever just stared at the light refracted on the bottom of a pool or a beach and stood there, mesmerized by the lattice of light warbling on the surface? To see the light contract, expand, and bend to the physics of the water is a whimsical exploration of childhood awe. The woven mat dances like neurons in the brain—all tightly connected, endlessly communicating in a web of electricity, and constantly changing. Albeit chaotic and seemingly without any patterns, under greater scrutiny, one can tell it is organized by basic principles of mathematics and physics, hidden to the naively observing eye. The flowering and formation of such phenomena is like that of a Fibonacci sequence or like a fractal that evolves and rifts on rules that become expansive complexities, realized across vast time and space. To observe the natural world is to encounter such moments of quiet beauty every second and to recount them again and again in many different forms. If such simplicity contains within an infinity of nuanced complexity, that the collective shape of water is created and recreated infinitesimally, painting light as its most faithful and fluid prism, then I cannot even articulate how wondrous the great mysteries there are to enjoy in our world. From the tiniest of atoms to the largest of human communities, each curve of the continuous spiral that connects all of natural reality represents another measure of a fugue that is both mystifying and familiar. Each voice interlaced into the harmony, like the light that we see in the water, ripples upon each other until there is but one single vibrancy that we call the Universe and Reality itself. To understand is to sift through and listen to this most beautiful and profound melody born and developed from the beginning of Time and Space. Intricately, we wade through these notes, and engrossed, we serenade with the world. This is what I see when I see the light under the waters—look once more and tell me: how could you not love it so?