THE FIRST UNIVERSAL LIGHT
The ancient theory outlined above suggests that the oldest form of real light in the universe was created on the wavelength scale of the first layer below the half measure. Real light means observable light—the type of light that can be detected empirically.
The universal rule of thumb can be used to estimate this scale as 2 ? 10-1 centimeters, or approximately 2 millimeters. This amounts to a deductive prediction rooted in ancient principles and related to the oldest form of universal light that can be detected empirically. Is there any evidence, however, that this prediction holds true?
It turns out that there is. Electromagnetic waves with a wavelength that is roughly two millimeters lie within the microwave frequency band. Unlike visible radiation, microwave radiation is not visible to the human eye; therefore, the waves are hidden from direct human perception—but they are not hidden to electromagnetic instruments.
According to the history of science, microwaves were first discovered during the first half of the twentieth century and were employed for practical use beginning around the time of World War II. Since then, microwaves have become a part of our daily lives; we use them to cook our food and talk on our cell phones. Toward the middle of the twentieth century, when microwave antennas were first developed, scientists began to point them at the starry heavens, and therefore made a remarkable discovery: They found that the universe is pervaded by a uniform, homogenous, isotropic radiation field characterized by microwaves. This became known as the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR).
Oddly, the CMBR has no known empirical point source; it is not emitted by the stars or galaxies or any of the charged particles floating in space. It appears to be a fundamental feature of the cosmological vacuum itself.
Its origin was initially a mystery. Theorists eventually concluded that it represents the leftover remnants of the big bang, the hypothetical event that, billions of years ago, created everything from nothing in a huge cosmic explosion. Consequently, the CMBR is considered currently to be the oldest form of real light in the universe. This is consistent with the ancient theory, which suggests that the oldest form of real light in the universe should lie in the microwave frequency band. Yet the prediction derived from the basis of ancient principles is quite specific, predicting that the CMBR should have a characteristic wavelength of about 2 millimeters—the characteristic scale of the first layer below the half measure. Here, we can learn if this prediction holds true.The CMBR is known to have a blackbody spectrum, which consists of electromagnetic waves of different wavelengths and frequencies, but the intensity of the blackbody radiation can be plotted out in the form of a spectral intensity curve as a function of wavelength. In each such spectrum there will be a maximum in the curve that corresponds to a particular wavelength, which characterizes the spectrum.
We know that the maximum of the spectral intensity curve for the CMBR occurs at a wavelength scale of 1.86 millimeters. The prediction derived on the basis of ancient theory is 2 millimeters, which agrees with the empirical facts to within a factor of 1. This suggests that we are dealing with a highly scientific system that is capable of making accurate empirical predictions.
No doubt, the ancient system is couched in religious-spiritual terms—but we can see that when it is interpreted properly, it has predictive power. So far we have seen that it can be used to predict accurately the scale of superunification as well as the characteristic wavelength scale of the oldest form of light in the universe. Are these just coincidences, or are we dealing with a genuine spiritual science, which was known to the ancients thousands of years before the first modern scientist was born?