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471. The second phenomenon has to do with absorption/dilution/solution. The nature of light is such that darkness breaks it down and absorbs it into itself. This is the same thing that occurs when you drop a lump of sugar into a cup of coffee. It dissolves and permeates the entire cup.

472. It is important to notice that the second phenomenon changes the character of the darkness. Just as having sugar in a cup of coffee changes the character (taste) of the entire cup.

473. As in a true chemical solution, the light does not “settle out” of the darkness, but stays attached to it, traveling through the darkness more by osmosis than through a propulsion of any sort. Thus it permeates the entirety of darkness, constantly moving toward an area of lesser concentration.

474. Unlike light, we have learned methods of keeping and storing heat. Heat must be viewed from the same perspective as light. It displaces cold; ultimately it is absorbed by cold, changing the character of cold.

475. An important difference between heat and light is that we have defined and isolated absolute cold—that temperature below which nothing can fall. We have not evolved a measurement or definition of absolute dark.

476. We have also learned to introduce a source of heat into an insulated chamber and that chamber will stay heated long after the source of heat has been extinguished. We have not learned to insulate a chamber in such a way that it stays lit after we turn out the source of the light. This should be possible.

477. Finally, we have learned to extract heat from our surroundings and use it—the process of breaking down a solution into its basic elements. The heat pump will theoretically extract heat from its surroundings down to a temperature of absolute zero—in other words, until no heat is left in the coldness. There must also be a means of creating a light pump which can extract light from darkness down to a lumen of absolute dark.

478. It should also be noted that since light ‘travels’ by osmosis, the speed of light is dependent on the rate of absorption into darkness. Since the absorption process indicates a movement from an area of greater density into an area of lesser density, the speed of light would be greatest when introduced to the area of greatest darkness.

479. A match lit in absolute darkness would be absorbed so quickly that it might not be seen by the human eye at all from several yards away. A powerful beam of light might take millions of miles of darkness (light years) to be fully absorbed.

480. A “light sail” could be created with which one could direct the force of a light beam during its absorption, driving a vehicle forward through the darkness.