Page 639 - Atlas of Creation Volume 4

Harun Yahya

The light in the narrow range of frequencies we can
see conveys all that we can experience in the outside
world.

The chief property of light is the effect it has on mat-
ter. In general, matter possesses inertia, resisting all the
pressures placed on it by pushing or pulling. And whe-
never we push or pull an object, we feel pushing or pul-
ling forces on ourselves. Newton called this action and

reaction. Light also acts on matter, but light particles ha-
ve no inertial property. We can see light reacting with ob-
jects, as when a laser beam cuts through metal or repairs

a damaged retina. But we can never perceive the actions
and reactions that matter has on light. Physicists refer to
light’s inability to be pushed or pulled as “its absence of
any rest mass.” 33
Rest mass is the mass of a body when at rest, in other

words, it is a fixed entity. Yet when it comes to light, it is
never at rest: It is in a state of constant movement.
Therefore, light is a form of energy that lacks mass and

for that reason does not exhibit a basic characteristic of
“matter.”
Fred Alan Wolf describes this state of affairs:

When we see light, we really don’t see light at all: we see
an effect appearing as a result of light pushing and pul-

ling on the matter making up our sensory bodies. We see
matter moving. Light itself is really out of this world . . . 34

Light is an energy that behaves in the form of a wave.
Light waves resemble waves in water. But unlike the
energy in water, this energy here has no need of a medium
to travel through. It can move within a total vacuum.
Thus light energy can be found where there is no matter.

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