The Quality of Light
My day follows a routine as constant as the tracks my feet have worn in the grass; that's part of life on the farm. Taking care of animals requires patience, diligence, and attention to detail, but you find yourself with a lot of time for idle thoughts. Lately, I have been thinking about the different qualities of visible light. The sun is 91.875 million miles away from our peculiar little planet. The speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792,458 metres per second exactly. This is one of the fundamental constants of nature, as stable as the Earth's orbit and a staple of physics. Eight minutes after a photon is emitted from the sun, it hits home. And from there, it changes everything it touches.
