{ "item_title" : "Let Us Start with Light", "item_author" : [" Vivek Sharma "], "item_description" : "Light doesn't just illuminate the world - it is the architecture of Time.Without the finite speed of light, there would be no distance, no separation of events into before and after, no causal order. This is why distant stars show you the past. The light from the Andromeda galaxy takes 2.5 million years to reach your eye. You are not seeing Andromeda as it is - you are seeing it as it was. Yet a photon inside the light experiences no time at all. A photon that has travelled 13.8 billion years - from the earliest moments of the universe to your eye, right now - experienced no journey. For the photon, the moment of emission and the moment of arrival are the same instant. There is no before. No after. No memories of events, no distance crossed. Only a single, eternal instant of contact. This is not poetry. The mathematics insists on it. In the equations of quantum gravity, time does not appear at all. It emerges only when systems interact, when information is exchanged, when relationship creates the sense of before-and-after. So, every photon that reaches your eye is a thread connecting your present moment directly to a distant past - not as a metaphor, but as a geometric fact. When spiritual traditions say time is an illusion, they are not being unscientific. They are pointing at something the physics also suggests; that the experience of a flowing present is a construction of consciousness, not a feature of the external world. Let Us Start with Light begins with physics and ends somewhere quieter. It moves through relativity, quantum theory, perception, and consciousness - and alongside, through Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, and Zen. Not as belief. As enquiry. This is not a book that offers conclusions. It is a book that loosens what you were certain of - and invites you to look at what remains. For readers who have ever suspected the world is not quite what it seems - and that the self-observing it may be the deepest mystery of all.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/76/461/289/1764612892_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.99", "online_price" : "14.99", "our_price" : "14.99", "club_price" : "14.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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