Columbus' Light

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. But the earth was formless and empty. Then God said: Let there be light; and there was light. And God sa...
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. But the earth was formless and empty. Then God said: Let there be light; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. (The Bible, Genesis 1, 1).
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It is the light what gives consistency and form to the matter. The atoms are practically 100% empty space. The volume occupied by the nucleus plus the volume occupied by the electrons is only 0,0000000000001% (yes, thirteen decimals) of the total volume of any atom. But the photons, as bosons responsible of the electromagnetic interaction, connect internally and continuously the electrons with the nucleus, and also atoms with other atoms in order to form molecules. The photons act as if they were the cement of the matter. Without light in its interior, there would not be solid atoms and molecules. The matter, the whole universe would be an extremely loose soup of bosons and hadrons with c.0% density. That is, without light, the matter, the earth would be formless and empty, as surprisingly states the first sentence of the Bible. Light is not an outside phenomenon: photons are an essential internal component of the matter. Without them it would not be possible any form. Neither the beauty, nor the photography. The matter is literally filled with light. Also at night. To capture it, is all.
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This lighthouse is at the entrance of Bayona bay, in Galicia, Spain. Bayona was the first town who had news of the discovery of America by Columbus. Separated by a storm one of the ships reached Bayona a few days earlier than Columbus arrived to Lisbone. (File#: 2014-08-28 20.11.02).
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