Did you hear this one?

A photon sidled into a bar… but nobody saw it. Because, you see, Light is not visible from the side.

One night when the moon was full, I noticed something…

On Earth, when the Sun is visible, the sky is bright with light; but when the Sun is not visible, the sky is dark. In Space, the Sun is always visible, yet Space is always dark.

In the night, when the Sun and Moon are placed in opposition, but with a clear path between them that is not blocked by the Earth, the Moon is bright, but the Space between the two is dark. If we turn towards the Moon, its surface is visible because light rays which have been reflected by the Moon’s surface travel to our eyes. Those same rays are invisible to our eyes as they travel past our position on Earth on their way to the Moon — in other words they are invisible from the side.

When you shine a bright flashlight out into the space in front of you at night, you do not see the light being projected away from you. You only see reflected light coming back to you. If there are other obstacles in the air, such as dust, smoke, or water vapor, the light is partially reflected by that, of course. But otherwise there is no light to be seen as it travels away from your flashlight. This is because light only has one surface.

Everything we see is a reflection, and not just those reflections we see on the surface of still water, a mirror, or even a window from outside when in bright sunlight.

The light that illuminates something is only that part of the light that is reflected off the surface of the thing. Even its color is only that part of the light that is reflected and not absorbed by it. Truly, the color of something is the reflective signature of its absorption of light — its color being what it cannot contain.

So all light is like rainbows in that they are not visible from the side, but only by a person directly facing the light in the direction the light is traveling.

Since light can not be seen from the side, and since light only has one surface, it has to be — and can only be — a 2-dimensional outside without an inside, a kind of Möbius surface, (rather than a strip). Perhaps like a one-sided flat soap bubble.

It cannot be a wave, since it has no depth. If it had depth, it would be visible from the side. Since it is 2-dimensional, it can’t be a particle either as it only has a surface and nothing beneath it.

It is not valid then to call light a thing, even though we may ‘bathe’ in it, since things are three-dimensional. But if it is not a thing, then no light exists. And yet, we can be blinded by it. What, then, can light be since we see it?

And since so-called visible light is just part of the electro-magnetic spectrum, this surely holds for the rest of it. What then is the actual evidence for the Big Bang?

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t deny what scientists say is true, but I find their assurance about what they say, not yet well founded.

(I am obviously procrastinating today — not doing what I need to do. Sorry for all the comments Graham!)