From now on, our weekly guest blogs from Science as Metaphor will now be a regular weekend feature. But since we missed last weekend, here’s a piece on light, mass and energy. -Rabiah
Relative Theories on Light, Mass, and Energy
by Ariel Hernadez-Neikrug
Energy = mass times the speed of light squared.
Whatever Energy means to us, whatever connotation Energy has with us;
positive energy, negative energy, neutral energy,
it all has mass.
And weather or not mass to us means
a holy gathering to praise the Light
or the actual core weight of a tangible item or idea,
Light and Energy have mass.
Not even Light can escape the entity known as a black hole.
But Light can also be a mask that a man in mass will wear to don
the illusion that he is a person of Light,
but at the core is full of negative energy.
But the absolute statute is that a negative x a negative will always equal a positive.
Is there such thing as negative mass?
In the realm of the artists, they have negative space,
but negative space forms shapes.
Is the substance of these shapes negative mass?
Is negative mass a gathering where the Dark is praised?
Light can be destroyed.
It can be crushed.
A person of Light can fall from grace into
a dark and deep abyss where everything
ceases to exist and nothing can escape.
Or perhaps, Light is merely an illusion,
like death or clothes.
What if our idea of ‘mass’ is just an illusion,
like a masquerade.
Because, after all…isn’t Light, Energy, and Mass all relative to each other?
A masquerade of Lights and Masses and Energies
coming together to form all of this,
this Theory of Relativity.
