Breakthrough

Were I in the midst of a religious meditation, I might have referred to it as a revelation or an epiphany. But I wasn't.

I was watching a PBS Digital Studios video on YouTube entitled, The Speed of Light is NOT About Light. And, at about 03:37 in that vid, triggered by the comment, "We don't measure magnetic field, we measure its effect," some very elementary physics concepts clicked into place for me; I actually felt a wave of relief wash over me. It was eerily similar to an experience I once had in a graduate statistics class when the prof, during his lecture, reformulated a hypothesis which instantly resolved what had been, for me, a week of confusion and growing desperation.

Look at it this way ....

But, as usual, I'm not really writing about physics. Rather I'm writing about how I experience its esoterica. In fact, I'm not sure I could even define what concepts I found to be suddenly more clear. All I know is that, over the course of a few seconds, what the presenter was talking about began to make more sense and some terminology took on new meaning—at least for me. And all because of a unicorn pony on rollerblades.

In any event, I highly recommend the PBS Digital Studios channels for your consideration.

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