07.09.09
Our worldviews= the way we look at our world.
One’s personal view of the world and how one interprets it; The totality of one’s beliefs about reality; A general philosophy or view of life. (as defined by Wikitionary)
But then take a step back, and you realize that the world you view is just… LIGHT! And that light is the teensiest tiniest bit of the full electromagnetic spectrum.
Today’s theme of Materials and Sensing began with that idea, immediately broadcast to us in the morning presentations. It was a quick way to restart my ancient musings of seeing the world differently through different “eyes”, or more scientifically: through different color spectrums. That sci-fi-ish idea that something exists outside of what our eyes can perceive.
Yeah, that’s it—like an alternate universe might exist. Like what you see really isn’t what’s there. Or there’s just so much beyond what you see. All these kinds of thoughts. I think this idea is most commonly explored in astronomy, actually. For example, check out this article.
What you see… A=visible light, B=near-infrared, C=longer wavelengths, D=even looonger
Then even beyond that, this entire topic keeps reminding me of a discovery I made earlier this year—that one of my good friends is color blind! The idea that his conception of the color red is completely different from my own is just so… strange!
(simulated kinds of color blindness)
And then that leads me to another thought—the idea that people who are blind from birth have no conception of color at all. They have to rely on all other senses to pick up the shape and form of the world around them. Here‘s a simple Q & A about how a blind person could possibly “see” color.
After all these random thoughts on light and color and seeing the world, it’s pretty amazing to just focus on the idea that so much beauty could be created from our tiny slice of the electromagnetic spectrum.
