Light Years

word. As I tiptoe further into the room, something outside crashes to the floor, shattering—I am used to broken things: toys, crayons, vases, marriages. The dryer beeps, indicating the end of a cycle and the light inside dims. I open the door and crawl inside; I am small, barely four years old. Nestled snugly in a ball, I fit into it almost too easily, carving my shape into the nest of warmth and cloth. It is a long time before anyone comes looking for me.…

“He doesn’t suspect a thing,” Mrs. Mitty said. She stood in a small room, the lights dimmed just enough so she could see. In the middle of the room was a wooden table and a chair on each end of it. A brighter light shining straight on the center of the table spread out across the room. Only a few feet away from Mrs. Mitty stood a man. He wore a black suit and tie with a pair of aviator sunglasses. “Sit,” said the man in a frigidly. He gestured towards the chair on one end of the table. Mrs.…

environment pressure of sunlight contributed to the variation in iris pigmentation? Only 10,000 years ago, someone who lived near the Black sea developed a mutation, which resulted in blue iris pigmentation (Eiberg, 2008). The iris consists of small connective tissue surrounded by muscular structure with a central opening known as the pupil (Sturm, 2008). This pupil allows the eye to control the amount of light, which enters to allow they eye to focus the lens to the retina. This sequence allows…

the wind. It’s so weird. I never realized how detailed the ceiling was. Blinking, I instantly regret it as a headache hammers through my brain. I moan, trying to move. My entire body is similar to that of stone, cold and unresponsive. Only one light shines down and it’s as if someone switched it out with the noonday sun. Doesn’t make sense. This room has always been horribly lit. I try to sit up when two hands stop my shoulders. I squint. “Flich?” “Hey, kiddo,” he says with a weak smile. He…

Leinster approaches the notion of ‘othering’ through the element, vision, and its related elements, light and darkness. According to Dr. Stephen E. Palmer’s textbook Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology, “vision relies on three basic elements, adaptation, sensitivity, and perception”(5). Eyes adapt to various levels of light in order to sense and perceive any figures within the environment. As light decreases, the eyes adapt up to a point until the range of sensitivity drops to a level that…

absorbing the sun’s light and then make the sugars within the chlorophyll located in the plant as shown in figure 1. After plants use the Sun's light to make their food (sugar), plants release oxygen into the air. The oxygen is very important because humans and animals need it to breathe as I mentioned above…

indicated in fig.2 A light-signal, which is proceeding along the positive axis of x, is transmitted according to the equation : x - ct = 0 _______ (1). Since the same light-signal has to be transmitted relative to K1 with the velocity c, the propagation relative to the system K1 will be represented by the analogous formula x' - ct' = 0 _______(2) therefore: (x' - ct') = λ (x - ct) ______(3). Here λ is constant If we apply quite similar considerations to light rays which are being…

The light we see from the sun is not exactly the light that comes to the earth from the sun. We see sunlight as being whitish in color, but it actually is a blend of the colors of the rainbow. The reason we see it this way has to do with the way our eyes perceive color. This is because, “Our eye contains three kinds of light-sensitive cells, each sensing a different band of colors--one band centered in the red, one in the green and one in the blue” (“(S-4) The Many Colors of Sunlight,” 2006).…

or light. Light sensitivity, otherwise known as photophobia, is often a side effect of migraines experienced by about eighty percent of migraineurs (Noseda et al 2016). “The inability to endure light can be disabling,” as said by Rami Burstein, academic director of the Comprehensive Headache Center at Beth Israel Deaconess (Harvard 2016), and “renders migraineurs dysfunctional as they are forced to halt fundamental daily tasks to seek the comfort of darkness,” (Noseda et al. 2016). Six years…

order to paint a young girl playing a piano. The name of his painting is The Sound of Tiny Fingers. In the middle of the painting sits a little girl. She looks to me no more than five years old. She has blonde, curly hair that shimmers in the light. Her eyes are looking down at her little hands as she pays. The light seems to surround the fly aways from her curls. The artwork was done in watercolor meaning that the fine details are not easily pointed out. The artist however did a good job of…